Telstra, Monday announced the launch of PEN Exchange and PEN Marketplace, two new enhancements to its global Software Defined Networking (SDN) solution, the Telstra PEN Platform. Telstra’s SDN platform is available globally in 26 PEN Points of Presence across the Asia Pacific region, Europe and North America, with additional connectivity options into public cloud services.
According to Telstra, using the PEN Exchange, organizations can identify and connect their network circuits on-demand with other PEN customers, driving faster, easier and more secure digital partnerships.
Telstra's PEN Marketplace, in the meantime, is a new online portal designed to make it quick and easy for customers to order virtual network functions in real-time such as firewalls and routers from different vendors.
Jim Clarke, Telstra’s Head of International Products and Pricing
The two new enhancements were designed to satisfy customers’ growing needs for secure, high bandwidth on-demand, and built on the expansion of the Telstra PEN Platform to the optical layer across 26 PEN Points of Presence worldwide in 2015.
