RAD Introduces New D-NFV Orchestrator to Its vCPE Solution

Mahwah, NJ, October 29, 2015 --(PR.com)-- RAD, the industry pioneer of virtualization at the customer edge, has expanded its Service Assured Access solutions portfolio by introducing a Distributed NFV (D-NFV) orchestrator as part of its RADview management suite.

The orchestrator provides complete lifecycle management for the network edge, including planning, provisioning and performance monitoring for virtual and non-virtual resources.

“A successful transition to programmable networks with centralized end-to-end service orchestration requires integration with domain orchestrators,” explains Ulik Broida, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at RAD. “Our new D-NFV orchestrator for the network edge uses open source software and standard interfaces to simplify integration with higher layer orchestrators and OSS/BSS platforms.

“Featuring an intuitive, simple-to-operate best-in-class user interface, offline planning, point-and-click provisioning, application management and other tools, it accelerates service deployment while reducing costs.”

Broida adds that “RADview simplifies complex everyday tasks at the control room, but most importantly, it efficiently controls large heterogeneous networks based on RAD products while ensuring reliable service delivery with deep visibility into network and service performance.”

The D-NFV orchestrator enhances RAD’s vCPE platform, the ETX-2i, a powerful IP and Carrier Ethernet FPGA NID/NTU with a field pluggable x86 D-NFV module for hosting virtual network functions (VNFs). Specially designed to serve as a virtualization engine at the customer edge for vCPE applications, the ETX-2i supports various architecture and VNF placement options to meet agility, performance, security and cost needs.

“What makes ETX-2i unique is its dynamic service-oriented flow treatment for optimizing hardware and software resources, especially when chaining services, and to allow the use of more applications with better QoE,” Broida notes.

“Given the widespread industry attention that virtual premises equipment is getting, it’s becoming clear that vCPE will play a pivotal role in the transition to SDN and NFV,” commented Dr. Jim Metzler of Ashton Metzler Associates. “But the key to realizing the full potential of the vCPE is management and orchestration," he says. “Solutions such as RAD’s, therefore, are a welcome development in ensuring that virtualized networks will indeed become a reality.”

RAD’s vCPE solution won the Network Virtualization Industry Award for NFV Innovation of the Year at Network Virtualization & SDN World 2014, and has been shortlisted this year for a Telecoms.com Award for Virtualization Excellence and a Broadband World Forum Award for Best Virtualization Solution.

About RAD
RAD is a global Telecom Access solutions and products vendor. Our Service Assured Access solutions for mobile, business and wholesale service providers are designed to improve the way they compete: service agility to minimize time to revenue, complete visibility of network performance for greater operational efficiency and better QoE to reduce churn. We are at the forefront of pioneering technologies, such as: Distributed NFV-based vCPEs, MEF Carrier Ethernet 2.0, performance monitoring for any network, hardware miniaturization, and timing synchronization over packets. Founded in 1981, RAD has an installed base of more than 13 million units, and works closely with Tier 1 operators and service providers around the globe. RAD is a member of the $1.2 billion RAD Group of companies, a world leader in communications solutions.