STOCKHOLM, June 11, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Enea® (NASDAQ
Stockholm: ENEA), a global supplier of network software platforms
and world class services, today announced Enea® NFV Access 2.0 – a
light-weight virtualization platform for universal Customer Premise
Equipment (uCPE).
Enea NFV Access 2.0 is an enabler for Communications Service
Providers (CSPs), who roll out managed services such as
Software-Defined Wide-Area Networks (SD-WAN), as well as
Enterprises building SD-WAN/SD-branch networks. Enea NFV Access
improves cost-effectiveness utilizing low-spec hardware while
benefiting from carrier grade throughput.
Enea NFV Access 2.0 is a compelling virtualization platform
combining opex and capex cost savings with carrier grade networking
characteristics at low memory footprint, low CPU utilization, and
low latencies. It brings best-in-class characteristics for
customers to enable cost-effective uCPE hardware, saving costs and
enabling both business and technical agility.
Characteristics
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Enea NFV
Access
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Competing commercial
alternatives
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Platform RAM
Footprint
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< 1
GB
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4-12
GB
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Platform Disk
Footprint
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< 1
GB
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4-12
GB
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Platform CPU
Utilization
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< 1
core
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2-4
cores
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Platform Boot Speed
(excl. BIOS)
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< 3
seconds
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10-30
seconds
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Virtualized Network
Throughput
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10 Gb IMIX Line
Rate
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1 Gb IMIX Line
Rate
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Virtualized Network
Latency
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Average 10-15
µs
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Average 25-75
µs
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Enea NFV Access 2.0 includes enhancements such as NETCONF
EdgeLink, Zero Touch Provisioning, and added Atom and Xeon hardware
support for Lanner and SuperMicro uCPE white boxes.
Key features include:
- Lightweight, software virtualization platform that
minimizes uCPE latency and footprint while maximizing
throughput
- Platform and network management over REST APIs
- Software provisioning at scale
- Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP)
- VNF onboarding and lifecycle management
- Service Function Chaining
"Enea NFV Access combines best-in-class characteristics with
cost-effective uCPE hardware utilization," said Thibaut
Bechetoille, SVP of Enea's NFV Business Unit. "This means that
operators and enterprises can optimize costs while getting maximum
business and technical agility at the network edge."
Enea NFV Access 2.0 is commercially available since June 6, 2018.
For more information, please visit
https://www.enea.com/enea-nfv-access
Erik Larsson,
SVP Marketing & Communication
Enea
E-mail: erik.larsson@enea.com
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