The company said at today’s Metro Connect in Miami Beach that the two announcements will enable carriers to move more quickly into the software defined wide area networks (SD-WAN) market.
“We’re targeting service providers in tiers one, two and three,” COO Mark Abolafia told Capacity at the event on Monday.
The deal with 128 Technology should help carriers move into SD-WAN for a much lower cost than before – essentially the cost of software. The Silver Peak solution uses both hardware and software.
Datavision said at the conference that it will promote the Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect SD-WAN solution through its sales channel and provide Silver Peak customers with high-touch engineering and implementation services.
Enterprises and service providers will gain the support and efficiencies from Datavision’s extensive experience in software-defined networking and integration to client’s existing BSS/OSS environments, said the company.
“We are excited to feature the Silver Peak SD-WAN solution across the Datavision portfolio of SDN-based solutions,” said Abolafia.
The 128 Technology agreement, announced last week, sees Datavision form a partnership to offer the software-based 128T networking platform for the deployment of SD-WAN and other next-generation solutions. This includes an innovative approach to networking called secure vector routing, which is session-aware, service-centric and entirely software-based.
Abolafia said: “We look forward to working with and supporting 128 Technology in taking on the challenge of natively providing network-based security, control, and optimization of overly complex networks.”
He told Capacity at Metro Connect that Datavision hopes to follow the announcements with the launch of a managed service via a network operations centre. This will be announced “in 30 to 45 days”, he added.
