Netcracker announced the launch Netcracker Business Cloud, an end-to-end cloud-based SDN/NFV and IT solution - from VNFs to orchestration, OSS, BSS, portals and a digital marketplace - as a service.
With the new portfolio, Netcracker aims to help CSP to start offering virtual services and cloud-based enterprise applications much more quickly, with flexible commercial and operational models.
Netcracker Business Cloud also includes comprehensive consulting and go-to-market services, making it a full turnkey solution. It offers deployment flexibility using Netcracker’s cloud or a multi-cloud environment comprised of a service provider’s private cloud and public clouds.
For large service providers with OpCo and ServCo models, Netcracker Business Cloud offers the flexibility to host the solution in a single location and deliver it as a service to the affiliates, enabling them to offer next-gen B2B services quickly. While it is a full-stack solution, its flexible, microservices-based architecture allows operators to use only parts of the solution they need to further augment or replace their own cloud solutions.
Netcracker says the Business Cloud also has a broad range of service packages that are ready to go, leveraging an extensive set of pre-integrated VNF and cloud partners from its award-winning Ecosystem 2.0 program. By bundling cloud connectivity services, such as SD-WAN, with value-added network services, enterprise and IoT applications, service providers can create and launch highly differentiated enterprise and vertical-specific offerings in a matter of weeks.
Karl Whitelock, VP of Communications Service Provider Operations and Monetization, IDC
The time has come for service providers to adopt new approaches when offering virtual network services and cloud applications, as the traditional CSP approach of ‘do it and build it all yourself’ takes too long and is too expensive.
Sanjay Mewada, Chief Strategy Officer, Netcracker
The business, sales and marketing organizations within CSPs that are responsible for B2B revenue growth have often been frustrated by the slow pace of network and IT transformation that is holding them back from quickly offering a new and diverse set of connectivity and value-added services to the B2B market.
