CenturyLink is transforming its central offices with next-generation virtual functionality for faster delivery of broadband services to its residential and business customers.
The company announced that it is the first carrier to use its own virtualized Broadband Network Gateway (vBNG) to support broadband services using the Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter (CORD) design. This key step in CenturyLink’s efforts to virtualize its infrastructure within the central office is part of the company’s commitment to have full global virtualization coverage in its IP core network by the end of 2019.
Through CORD, CenturyLink is using Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) to bring datacenter economics and cloud agility to its central offices for fast and efficient delivery of new network services to residential and business customers.
CenturyLink’s SDN access controller is an OpenDaylight-based controller stack that integrates its legacy operations support systems (OSS) and latest generation orchestration platforms. In addition to virtualizing its infrastructure, CenturyLink continues to develop and implement virtualized services, including a virtual firewall, data center interconnection and software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) for enterprise customers. Through these virtualization efforts, CenturyLink is enhancing the customer experience by providing them with more control of their services.
Aamir Hussain, EVP and CTO, CenturyLink
This is a key component in our strategy to bring virtual network services to our customers while driving virtualization into our last-mile network, allowing us to quickly and efficiently deliver new technologies that meet our customers’ rapidly changing needs.
