A key part of Telefónica's cloud vision is to offer businesses the ability to order, customize, and configure value-added services through a self-service portal for on-demand delivery. After deploying an SD-WAN infrastructure in 2017, Telefónica is leveraging and expanding that investment to include modern software-defined data centers (SDDCs). Nuage Networks' Virtualized Network Services (VCS) solution automates secure connectivity and network services across efficient, advanced data center fabrics powered by Nokia routers and Nuage Networks. This modernization will enhance Telefónica's service offerings, which range from enterprise hosting and colocation to enterprise wide area networks (WANs) and enterprise cloud infrastructure.
Nuage Networks' VCS solution automatically establishes network configurations with quality of service (QoS) and security policies. It also enables zero-touch, policy-based network automation of applications running on any infrastructure, whether virtual machines, containers, or bare-metal servers. The solution is OpenStack compatible and fully certified with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack platform.
Furthermore, Nuage Networks will enable hybrid cloud interconnection between Private DC, Telefónica SDDC, and Public Clouds, where Telefónica customers require solutions to meet the needs of cloud-based applications such as cloud bursting, latency optimization, virtualized networks, and routing services.
To implement Telefónica's advanced blade data center architecture—a specialized topology that minimizes latency and bottlenecks—Nokia and Nuage Networks are offering routing platforms with the density, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness to meet Telefónica's objectives across the entire range of interfaces. Telefónica's hosted infrastructure ensures that businesses achieve the highest level of agility and responsiveness while avoiding the complexity and risks of managing their own cloud.
Joaquín Mata, Director of Operations, Networks, and IT at Telefónica Spain, states: “To meet the rapidly emerging business requirements for agility and on-demand deployments, we moved aggressively to build our enterprise connectivity services around a new cloud-based architecture. The networks provided us with a highly scalable SDN architecture that could support all our services across all our regions without disruption. We are confident that our customers will significantly improve their businesses with these new cloud-based services.”
Sunil Khandekar, founder and CEO of Nokia’s Nuage Networks, comments: “The IT, communications, and service needs of today’s businesses are far more demanding than they were a few years ago and therefore require new technologies to support them. Telefónica ensures that Nuage Networks’ SDN solutions meet the requirements of its entire network infrastructure, from the data center to remote WAN sites worldwide. Enterprise customers who need greater flexibility and agility to quickly launch into new markets can achieve this through trusted providers like Telefónica.”
Equinix selects Infinera Cloud Xpress for data center interconnection in Hong Kong
Infinera announces that Equinix has selected Infinera Cloud Xpress to interconnect its data centers in Hong Kong. Infinera Cloud Xpress offers Equinix a platform with hyperscale density, operational simplicity, and low power consumption.
