Partner Communications Selects Cloudify and VMware to Help Deliver an Open-vCPE and SD-WAN Solution in Record Time - Seite 2

The approach enabled Partner Communications' operational team to employ pluggable open VNFs. These were easily integrated with existing billing and activation services. As a result, Partner was able to move V-NET to production in less than six months. V-NET provides a complete self-service experience for managing its network services.

Cloudify and VMware collaborated on this "open vCPE" solution enabling Partner Communications to deliver a new, virtual, managed service offering. The Open vCPE (virtual customer premises equipment) solution includes the VMware NFV Infrastructure platform, the Cloudify Orchestrator, virtual firewall and router functions and both CPE and vCPE customer premise options. Open vCPE delivers all of the core benefits of a vCPE services model, with the added value of being open, by using any CPE or vCPE and any VNF to build an end-to-end virtual managed service.

Capabilities and Benefits of Partner's V-NET System

• Network traffic management for central IT and branches via a single interface
• Backups of up all communications, services and information security systems, including cellular, wired and fiber optic, operating in parallel and providing continuity of service
• Rapid setup of new branches and connections to the network
• Automated, real-time alerts covering problems at branches locations
• Simplified network policy management for the organization and branches

Supporting Quotes

Raz Bartov, Vice President Technologies and IT, Partner Communications
"NFV is fundamentally changing the way communications services are provided, and Partner is pleased to be leading the way in our market. The Partner V-NET platform creates intelligent management of communications networks, services and cloud access, enabling IT managers to have direct access to any point or branch of the management interface, while saving significant manpower, time, hardware and money. Our decision to use Cloudify with VMware vCloud NFV to drive our NFV adoption process dramatically shortened our time to market with the V-NET platform."

Nati Shalom, Chief Technology Officer, Cloudify
"Lowering the barriers to entry for NFV adoption is our first priority. It's one of the reasons we're a founding Platinum member of the ONAP community, where Cloudify is aligned with the future direction of NFV adoption. Our orchestration-first, open source, cloud-native approach to NFV adoption reduces the learning curve and accelerates VNF on-boarding. Working with Partner, we've achieved another milestone, lowering cost and complexity barriers so that Tier-2 carriers can adopt NFV. This approach to NFV adoption will shape how NFV projects look going forward."