NEC/NetCracker and Telefónica have successfully completed a Proof of Concept (PoC) based on SDN/NFV that allows Telefónica to accelerate its strategy to automate operations and provide a new agile WAN on the business market. These companies have partnered to showcase a virtual CPE (vCPE) for automated customer deployment over an NFV platform.
As part of the PoC, NEC/NetCracker and Telefónica built an end-to-end solution for a virtualized VPN service over the vCPE. The solution includes a full orchestration and self-care stack from NEC/NetCracker, integrated with Telefónica’s virtual infrastructure solution and several virtual network functions, such as virtual SSL termination gateway, and virtual firewall.
According to NEC/Netcracker, the orchestration solution successfully handled automated provisioning
and the activation of both virtualized and traditional networks to establish a virtualized VPN service and deploy the virtual network functions (VNF) on the cloud. The solution allowed customers to access the VNF settings, including the provisioning of new remote VPN users on an SSL gateway directly from the self-care portal.
Eduardo Guardincerri, Service Development & Planning Director at Telefónica Business Solutions
The rising complexity of the WAN Network is a significant drain on our time-to-market KPIs. That is the primary reason to invest in Proofs of Concept, to address this important challenge.
Frank DeTraglia, Chief Customer Officer at NetCracker
Given the increasing demand for virtualized solutions, we are excited to work with Telefónica and demonstrate the in-depth capabilities of our innovative SDN/NFV solutions. We are pleased with the results of this PoC and look forward to expanding our relationship with Telefónica as the market and demand for virtualized technologies grow.
