Deutsche Telekom, Cisco Announce the Launch of DT's Cloud VPN Service in Three European Countries

BARCELONA, SPAIN--(Marketwired - Mar 3, 2015) - At Mobile World Congress, Deutsche Telekom (DT) announced the launch of a Cloud VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service for small and medium businesses. The announcement builds on the longstanding collaboration between DT and Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO). The Cloud VPN offering is DT's first commercial service based on its centralized Pan-European IP network. It was designed and developed using a collaborative "devops" philosophy by Cisco and DT. The service is first available to customers via DT's subsidiaries in Croatia, Hungary and Slovakia from March 2.

The Cloud VPN service uses a self-service online portal to give customers a simple way to select, subscribe to and activate highly secure and scalable Internet services. The service portfolio includes branch, site-to-site and remote access encrypted VPNs, as well as firewall and web security, all offered as a cloud-managed IT solution on a monthly subscription basis.

Customers have access to a management dashboard on which they can track the status and performance of services and upgrade their service package, such as increasing the number of users or the bandwidth, with a click of a mouse. Provisioning is automatic and done in real time from DT's data centre.

The design of this virtualized managed service is utilizing the Tail-F NCS platform and is fully based on Netconf/YANG, which are the emerging global standards for this type of virtualized services within the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). The service is built on Cisco® virtual security appliances, combined with DT's OpenStack solutions.

With Cisco's new virtualized managed service solutions, Service Providers are now better able to pursue the fast-growing managed network and communication services market. Utilizing Software Defined Networking (SDN), innovative Network Function Virtualization (NFV), multi-vendor orchestration and provisioning technologies, these solutions can enable service providers to save up to 78 percent in operational costs, deliver a 200 percent return on investment over 5 years and decrease new managed service start-up time from months to less than 48 hours, compared with past approaches.