ADVA is telling its partners that it has expanded its Ensemble Harmony Ecosystem to provide more software, hardware and deployment location solutions.
The network functions virtualisation (NFV) partner programme now includes more than 50 members and encompasses over 100 components.
The latest additions range from commercial virtual network functions (VNFs), to open source VNFs, to white box or commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) servers. With new partners, including integrators and resellers, collaborating to deliver product to communication service providers (CSPs), the expanded ecosystem offers more choice of components.
Mirko Voltolini, Head of Network On Demand, Colt Technology Services said his outfit had been working with Ensemble because it had a wide range of software in its ecosystem.
“Our global uCPE solution is about more than SD-WAN and firewalls. It’s about addressing all of the needs of our enterprise customers, both today and tomorrow. Ensemble gives us a future-proofed platform to drive our network innovations.”
ADVA Ensemble division CTO Prayson Pate said: ” We’re committed to providing an open platform and the ability to deploy true multi-vendor solutions. That’s why we continue to work with the widest variety of partners supplying advanced software and hardware components. This latest expansion will give our customers even more freedom of choice and further accelerate automation and virtualization initiatives at the metro service edge.”
