Verizon Enterprise Solutions has launched Virtual Network Services which promise to enable enterprises to transition to a virtual infrastructure model, providing greater agility and on-demand resources.
The new services will be delivered as-a-service fundamentally transforming the network into software-based solutions running on open platforms—a significant departure from how network services are provisioned and consumed today.
Driving this change is digitization of business, IP communications, internet video, and mobile to cloud.
Verizon’s Virtual Network Services will enable clients to essentially operate a “living” network that can be changed quickly to address the number of company locations and users, bandwidth required by application, and application use by employee to enable a secure, high performance and efficient network.
The new services will provide a range of business and technical benefits to enterprises including agility, reduction in total cost of ownership, end-to-end management, flexible service tiers, flexibility, dynamic scaling, rich technology partner ecosystem with world-class vendors, rapid and easy service deployment.
“The way in which network services are delivered is going through an unprecedented shift—the biggest we’ve seen since the broad adoption of MPLS,” said Shawn Hakl, VP of networking and innovation at Verizon.
“Today the network is transitioning to a virtualized model using similar technology that drove the disruption in the data center market,” said Hakl. “With our new solution set, enterprises will be able to balance agility, performance, cost and security necessitated by the growth of mobile-to-cloud applications and the Internet of Things.”