Megaport Limited, a global leading Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) provider, has announced the upcoming release of Megaport Virtual Edge (MVE), a product innovation that will enable the hosting of Network Function Virtualization (NFV), such as SD-WAN capabilities, directly on Megaport\u2019s global Software Defined Network (SDN). With MVE, customers will tap into Megaport\u2019s extensive platform reach to deploy and extend their network functions closer to the Edge, in real time and without the need to deploy hardware. Megaport and Cisco are\u00a0collaborating\u00a0to enable Cisco SD-WAN as the first use case on MVE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAs enterprises and service providers begin to fully understand the benefits of SD-WAN, the ability for Megaport customers to easily, and in minutes, \u2018spin up\u2019 SD-WAN virtual appliances around the world on our platform is a big enabler for global organisations,\u201d said Vincent English, CEO of Megaport. \u201cHaving these virtual appliances fully integrated into the Megaport Interconnection Platform leveraging our multicloud connectivity takes this to another level.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The highly-distributed MVE footprint will align with global centres of commerce to support traffic localisation for low-latency networking and will provide an interconnection gateway to securely manage multicloud and multi-location interconnection. MVE includes gateway functionality to connect with Megaport\u2019s SDN in a platform-neutral and technology-agnostic manner, allowing customers to move beyond legacy networking models and take a unified approach to managing their network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SD-WAN on MVE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n SD-WAN, the first network use case supported on MVE, enables customers to take advantage of Megaport\u2019s secure, on-demand network from any Internet-connected SD-WAN location around the world. This empowers customers to build a unified, multicloud network architecture that scales as their business needs grow \u2014 in a matter of minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Customers will host and fully manage instances of SD-WAN devices on MVE to connect Megaport\u2019s global interconnection fabric with SD-WAN enabled locations. Setup and maintenance of SD-WAN instances is enabled through an API and soon will be available through Megaport\u2019s point-and-click portal. Once connected, SD-WAN enabled locations can provision on demand connections to Megaport\u2019s leading ecosystem of cloud, IT service providers, and more than 700 enabled data centres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Megaport is integrated with more than 200 cloud onramps \u2014 the most of any neutral elastic interconnection platform \u2014 and has an ecosystem of over 360 service providers including Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, Oracle Cloud and Salesforce, among others. MVE unlocks the power of Megaport\u2019s ecosystem and makes it available regardless of location.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Megaport SDN provides carrier-grade, private connectivity that scales and secures traffic to vital locations and\u00a0service providers\u00a0to\u00a0address\u00a0performance\u00a0and\u00a0security requirements\u00a0for\u00a0mission-critical applications. More than 1850 customers rely on Megaport to power their digital\u00a0businesses. Megaport Limited, a global leading Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) provider, has announced the upcoming release of Megaport Virtual Edge (MVE), a product innovation that will enable the hosting of Network Function Virtualization (NFV), such as SD-WAN capabilities, directly on Megaport\u2019s global Software Defined Network (SDN). With MVE, customers will tap into Megaport\u2019s extensive platform reach to deploy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":1148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,36,40,44],"tags":[134,807,808,809,753,810,811],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intelligent-technologies-cloud","category-networking","category-software","category-top-stories","tag-cisco","tag-cisco-sd-wan","tag-megaport","tag-megaport-virtual-edge","tag-multicloud","tag-mve","tag-sd-wan"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions\/1147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/apac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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