Software defined networking (SDN) continues its march from concept to reality today, as one of the world’s largest communications service providers in the world begins to roll out a massive transformational network solution that enables businesses to move their enterprise traffic off private IP networks and onto the public Internet.
What makes this innovation important is that the connectivity extends across all fixed and mobile domains, including branch offices, mobile workers, connected vehicles and Internet of Things (IoT) end points. This “Interprise” cloud network solution works over a variety of network types, including wire and wireless broadband.
SoftBank is tapping Cradlepoint’s software-defined NetCloud platform to serve over 400,000 customers across Asia, including more than a million Google Apps for Work IDs.
Boise, Idaho-based Cradlepoint is a company on the move, having recently acquired Petrino, bringing additional SDN technology capabilities to their NetCloud platform. The company is an industry leader in blending real time communications across “people, places and things” over any network protocol, and is application and carrier neutral, making it easier to get work done.
The company and SoftBank Corp. announced the commercial availability of WhiteCloud OneLayer on Cradlepoint NetCloud.
As the real time communications world continues to move into platforms as a service, this co-branded offering promises to empower customers to instantly build branch, mobile, and IoT networks in the cloud with a layer of policy-based services for end-to-end security and control.
According to a news release earlier today, “SoftBank is the first carrier to deliver managed network services using the platform. OneLayer on Cradlepoint NetCloud will be sold through SoftBank’s direct sales organization in Japan and through its subsidiaries and partnerships around the world.”
“Cradlepoint’s NetCloud lets us harness cloud, SDN, and NFV technologies to rapidly deliver new services that meet our customers’ evolving network needs in this new era of Internet-centric IT,” said Sadahiro Sato, senior vice president at SoftBank Corp. “Instead of building and managing multiple physical networks, OneLayer on Cradlepoint NetCloud lets customers deploy a single cloud-based WAN that can be configured in minutes to meet the specific needs of connecting remote sites, workers and IoT devices anywhere in the world.”
George Mulhern, CEO of Cradlepoint added, “The Cradlepoint NetCloud platform is at the heart of our strategy to extend leadership in cloud-managed 4G LTE solutions to the emerging opportunity for converged, software-defined enterprise networks designed to connect people, places, and things over Internet broadband,” said George Mulhern, Cradlepoint CEO. “We are pleased to partner with SoftBank in delivering OneLayer on Cradlepoint NetCloud, the first carrier-delivered service that runs on our new platform strategy.”
Edited by
Ken Briodagh
