Spectrum Rolls Out Its Nationwide Managed SD-WAN Service

After teasing its launch for some time, Spectrum Enterprise finally released availability of a fully managed SD-WANservice in the U.S. Spectrum Enterprise, which is the business arm of Charter Communications, first demonstrated an SD-WAN proof of concept at the MEF17 show in late 2017. At that time, it announced that it was working with Nokia’s Nuage Networks technology for the SD-WAN component and with Palo Alto Networks on the security component. It also said its primary use case for SD-WAN would be Ethernet. According to Satya Parimi, group vice president of enterprise data products at Spectrum Enterprise, it “has been running market field trials for the last year to better understand enterprise needs and use cases for various WAN configurations for which SD-WAN would be a good fit.” And at the same time, the group has been working to deploy a SDN/NFV edge compute platform, which delivers the managed SD-WAN, virtual security, and “soon a number of other products and services,” Parimi said. Today, Spectrum launched the service, which integrates a number of third-party vendor’s components. Nuage remains the SD-WAN provider, but it relies on Fortinet for virtual security services, Netcracker for virtual network function (VNF) management, and Cisco for services orchestration. Nuage was selected for the SD-WAN component as it offered capabilities for SD-WAN and Ethernet stitching, product flexibility with features, and fit into its SDN/NFV platform. The Fortinet virtual security service enables secure internet access with the managed service. Additional features of the service include multiple connectivity bundles, application visibility and prioritization, and integration with Ethernet networks. Parimi sees the SD-WAN market as still in its infancy and is fragmented with multiple use cases and configurations. He added that Spectrum’s field trials and discussions with enterprises “informed us on how we go to market and differentiate in a crowded marketplace.” Spectrum’s SD-WAN differentiates itself in three ways. First, it is a fully managed service that enterprises can use to migrate to SD-WAN, while considering their current WAN networks and future network needs. Second, it can allow this migration to happen at whatever pace and operate in a hybrid environment along the way. And third, it relies on Spectrum’s connectivity options, including its fiber network, and is delivered over that SDN/NFV edgecompute platform, which enables rapid service creation and service launches.

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