Megaport Virtual Edge Brings Branch-to-Cloud Connectivity with the Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform
November 15 2021 - 4:00PM
Business Wire
Joint solution extends the SD-WAN fabric to the
Megaport network, optimising network performance and reducing
provisioning time from months to minutes
Megaport Limited (ASX: MP1) ("Megaport"), a global leading
Network as a Service (NaaS) provider, today announces the
availability of the Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform on Megaport
Virtual Edge (MVE). Integrating Aruba EdgeConnect with MVE enables
branch-to-cloud connectivity via Megaport’s global Software Defined
Network (SDN).
Businesses have embraced SD-WAN and internet connections to
simplify and lower the cost of IT connectivity. The challenge has
been that variability in end-to-end internet connections and
latency can impair the performance, availability, and security of
key services and resources. This can now be addressed by
instantiating virtual Aruba EdgeConnect instances on Megaport’s
global platform, thereby extending the SD-WAN fabric to the very
edge of Megaport’s SDN. The joint solution reduces the distance
data must traverse over internet paths between branch locations or
to public or private clouds, reducing latency in the process.
Aruba EdgeConnect customers can now leverage Megaport’s
worldwide ecosystem of more than 700 data centres and over 360
service providers, with 230+ cloud on-ramps including Alibaba
Cloud, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, Oracle Cloud,
and Salesforce. Additional benefits include:
- Reduced cloud egress costs to cloud on-ramps when compared to
internet rates;
- Better performance from reduced jitter and latency;
- Global on-ramps for faster, localised connections;
- Point-and-click network provisioning of interconnection between
branch locations, data centres, cloud providers, and IT
services;
- Real-time provisioning of virtual network infrastructure and
interconnections;
- Lower deployment costs since there is no hardware to ship,
install, or manage; and
- End-to-end network provisioning, management, and visibility for
legacy networks.
“Megaport Virtual Edge offers Aruba EdgeConnect customers an
additional way to modernise and secure WAN edge infrastructure,”
said Fraser Street, WAN Technical Alliance Coordinator at Aruba, a
Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. “The joint solution accelerates
data transfer, reduces operating costs, and simplifies
commissioning and maintenance.”
MVE is a globally distributed compute and network service, and
customers can host Network Function Virtualisation instances
on-demand at the point of use, managing them globally from a single
pane of glass. A built-in transit gateway provides highly scalable
access for connecting networks, via the public internet, to
Megaport’s private SDN. Virtualized devices hosted on MVE can
create connections between the Megaport SDN and their distributed
sites via the transit gateway.
“Integrating the Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN platform with
Megaport’s SDN will enable joint customers to achieve better
network and application performance while reducing cloud costs,”
said Vincent English, CEO of Megaport. “Since MVE is available in
22 metro areas across North America, Asia-Pacific, and Europe,
traffic can be localized allowing data termination to be optimised
for performance.“
For more information about Megaport Virtual Edge, please visit
https://www.megaport.com/mve.
For more information about Aruba EdgeConnect, please visit
www.arubanetworks.com/products/sd-wan/edgeconnect/.
About Megaport Megaport is a leading provider of Network
as a Service (NaaS) solutions. The company’s global Software
Defined Network (SDN) helps businesses rapidly connect their
network to services via an easy-to-use portal or our open API.
Megaport offers agile networking capabilities that reduce operating
costs and increase speed to market compared to traditional
networking solutions. Megaport partners with the world’s top cloud
service providers, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google
Cloud, as well as the largest data centre operators, systems
integrators and managed service providers in the world. Megaport is
an ISO/IEC 27001-certified company.
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