Telco Systems and Advantech to bring vCPE solution to SMBs

Telco Systems, the provider of Carrier Ethernet (CE) 2.0, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), Internet protocol (IP), software-defined networking/network functions virtualisation (SDN/NFV) solutions, and the Networks & Communications Group of Advantech are partnering to provide a virtual customer premise equipment (vCPE) solution enabling virtual network function (VNF)
services on cost-optimised hardware.

Telco Systems’ NFVTime open vCPE solution will be deployed across a range of Advantech white box appliances.When combined with Advantech’s FWA-1010VC white box vCPE appliances, NFVTime simplifies product rollouts. For more demanding on-premise workloads, the Advantech FWA-3260 appliance offers extra processing headroom, additional encryption offload and higher network throughput.

The joint solution, targeted at small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs), will allow telcos and managed service providers to efficiently expand their vCPE-based NFV services.

“NFVTime works seamlessly across Advantech’s white box vCPE range bringing telcos and managed service providers a wider choice of performance, port count and network interface types,” said Ween Niu, GM, Networks & Communications Group at Advantech. “We are excited to be working with Telco Systems, one of the leading innovators for service virtualization, and we have strong expectations that our partnership will help service providers and enterprises to gain benefits earlier by shortening the time-to-deployment.”

“We are committed to helping our service provider customers expand their service agility and deploy new business services across all market segments with the appropriate cost structure and resource requirements,” said Raanan Tzemach, VP, Product Management at Telco Systems. “For service providers targeting the SMB segment, our collaboration with Advantech is delivering three times the performance at half the cost.”