VerizonはNFVサービスのプッシュのためにシスコを利用します

Verizon Business Groupは、シスコのエンタープライズネットワークコンピューティングシステム（ENCS）をホワイトボックスハードウェアのカタログに追加して、新しい仮想化サービスの導入をサポートします。Verizon Business Group will add Cisco‘s Enterprise Network Compute System (ENCS) to its catalog of white-box hardware in a bid to support the deployment of new virtualized services. Cisco‘s 5000-series ENCS appliances combine traditional server hardware with routing technology. When paired with Cisco Managed Service Accelerator (MSX) orchestration service, customers can directly manage NFV workloads running on the ENCS white boxes, said Aamir Hussain, SVP of business products at Verizon. “We have lots of customers who have a tremendous amount of demand for that type of product.” According to Hussain, this partnership provides Verizon with a “holistic portfolio” to address not just Cisco-specific customer needs, but it also provides an ecosystem on which to manage multiple virtual network functions (VNFs). Cisco’s ENCS appliances will be available in a variety of configurations ranging from four to eight compute cores. “It’s an x86 platform, but it’s an x86 platform that is built with a purpose specifically for enterprise-grade NFV, fully manageable from a managed service standpoint, and dedicated to the branch,” explained JL Valente, VP of product management, managed services at Cisco. This enables Verizon to not only tailor the hardware to fit the customer’s needs but the software as well. “We offer multiple types of solutions, multiple virtual network functions whether it’s hosted on premise or off premise,” Hussain said. “We offer things from load balancing to web acceleration, firewall, to session border controllers, to Cisco’s CSRs. There is a huge amount of demand from our customers.” Additionally, because these VNFs can be provisioned remotely, new services can be spun up as required. According to Hussain, this capability paid dividends with the onset of the pandemic. “We saw the businesses, which had adopted virtual networking functions, come online much faster than the businesses that hadn’t adopted them,” he said.