OneAccess, a global provider of innovative platforms for the profitable delivery of CPE-based managed network services for communication service providers (CSPs), has unveiled its service migration strategy to enable Service Providers to practically and efficiently implement the delivery of virtualized services. In the first step of its NFV strategy, OneAccess has announced the availability of a vCPE Adapter or virtual adapter that enables the full functions of a traditional branch-office CPE to be placed directly in the service chain of an NFV infrastructure. The vCPE Adapter enables all or part of the targeted enterprise network services to be set up using either Netconf, existing legacy protocols or a combination of both.
OneAccess said that its strategy enables operators to introduce NFV gradually, leveraging existing provisioning services where necessary, yet is designed to enable full virtualized automation for even complex service types in an open and operationally practical way. This means operators can now start their trials and initial NFV service rollouts unconstrained by the need to migrate their legacy services or ‘forklift upgrade’ their existing CPE. Once installed, the vCPE adapter enables all legacy services to be integrated into the service chain and to be provisioned via the adapter or natively with Netconf, added OneAccess.
Pravin Mirchandani, CMO and NFV evangelist, OneAccess
OneAccess’ focus on serving the specific needs of operators and CSPs has enabled us to respond to their requirements for a steady and sensible migration path. We help by minimizing the risk of introducing new virtualized services as the migration can run in tandem with their existing OSS and organizational processes. In the near future, OneAccess will also deliver both a vCPE and a number of specialized VNFs, with a focus on virtualizing and automating the delivery of more complex dual-headed functions such as VPNs (i.e. encrypted tunnels), WAN optimization and hybrid access link management schemes to augment bandwidth and provide failover and offload for critical business traffic.
