Orange Business taps Ekinops to Launch SD-WAN Essentials

Ekinops, a supplier of optical transport and enterprise connectivity solutions for telecom operators and enterprises, has announced that Orange Business has chosen Ekinops technology to launch its new SD-WAN offer named SD-WAN Essentials, transforming Enterprise connectivity into a stepping stone to the Cloud.

Orange Business SD-WAN Essentials is a co-managed solution giving all businesses access to the essentials of SD-WAN services, providing control, reliability, performance, application-level routing and security.

This solution, based on Ekinops SD-WAN Xpress technology, enables businesses to switch to intelligent routing in a secure way, limiting the number of devices and energy consumption.

"We are proud to support the Orange Business new SD-WAN Essentials offering, which enables enterprise digital transition while minimizing its carbon footprint," commented Didier Brédy, Chief Executive Officer of Ekinops.

Ekinops is a leading provider of open, trusted and innovative network connectivity solutions to service providers around the world. The company's programmable and highly scalable solutions enable the fast, flexible, and cost-effective deployment of new services for both high-speed, high-capacity optical transport as well as virtualization-enabled managed enterprise services.

EKINOPS360 provides optical transport solutions for metro, regional and long-distance networks with WDM for high-capacity point-to-point, ring, and optical mesh architectures, and OTN for improved bandwidth utilization and efficient multi-service aggregation.
OneAccess offers a wide choice of physical and virtualized deployment options for Layer 2 and Layer 3 access network functions.

Compose supports service providers in making their networks software-defined with a variety of software management tools and services, including the scalable SD-WAN Xpress and SixSq Edge-to-Cloud solutions.

As service providers embrace SDN and NFV deployment models, Ekinops enables future-proofed deployment today, enabling operators to seamlessly migrate to an open, virtualized delivery model at a time of their choosing.