GCI Revamps Managed Services Delivery with Juniper Networks’ SD-WAN
22 February 2018 - 11:45PM
Juniper Networks (NYSE:JNPR), an industry leader in automated,
scalable and secure networks, today announced that GCI, Alaska’s
largest telecommunications company, has deployed Juniper’s Contrail
SD-WAN to rapidly create innovative new service offerings and
expand into new markets with its virtual managed service platform,
CloudFlex
® SD-WAN.
Service providers are looking to diversify business models in
order to break the dependence on mere connectivity, creating new
value in an era of dramatically rising network traffic, enterprise
cloud application use and operating costs. Service providers must
offer customers contextual services to thrive in this new era;
however, the prevalence of closed, proprietary customer premises
equipment (CPE) restricts scalability, slows time to revenue and
limits innovation.
GCI’s CloudFlex®, enabled by Juniper’s Contrail
SD-WAN, comprised of Contrail Service Orchestration, the NFX250
Network Services Platform, the SRX Series Services Gateway and the
vSRX Virtual Firewall, allows the telecommunications leader to
offer enterprises new services, such as managed SD-WAN, managed
security and other virtual network functions in the future without
needing to install physical appliances on-site and dispatching
humans to provision the service. This new level of automation,
based on centralized orchestration with end-to-end automation, will
allow GCI to expand into regions across the United States, where it
previously could not with a hardware-centric network. With Juniper,
GCI expects to reduce provisioning times for its customers by more
than half and simplify operations by cutting service-fulfillment
costs by more than 60 percent.
“Service providers simply cannot rely on selling only
connectivity to drive growth in a world where customers demand
contextual services that add real value to their business or
personal lives,” said Sally Bament, vice president, service
provider marketing at Juniper Networks. “Those that don’t move up
the value chain will get left behind in this evolving reality, but
it’s not as simple as flipping a switch. And the network shouldn’t
be a hindrance to getting there. We’re thrilled to work with GCI on
reinventing their network and infusing automation so it can play a
crucial role in the next generation of telecommunications.”
“GCI is ushering in a new era of what it means to be a digital
service provider and looked to Juniper as a partner to deliver
managed services even more effectively,” said John Barnhardt, vice
president of business product development at GCI. “CloudFlex
enables GCI to provide our customers with new services faster than
ever before with the convenience of using just one appliance versus
a whole server rack.”
Additional Resources:
- Contrail SD-WAN
- Contrail Service Orchestration
- NFX Series Network Services Platform
- SRX Series Services Gateway
- vSRX Virtual Firewall
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