The emergence of lower-cost, high-volume white boxes along with standardized software APIs increases supplier choice and reduces risks. In order to maximize profits, carriers and enterprises need to use the most cost effective solutions on the customer premise, and increasingly, they are using universal customer premise equipment (uCPE). Today’s blog covers the entry-level uCPE/SD-WAN Solutions with Extremely Low Footprint and a new...

In our new webinar entitled “Join the Whitebox Revolution” Advantech and 6WIND will discuss the Evolution of white box servers based on Intel Architecture and how, together with key industry and ecosystem initiatives, they have set about a paradigm shift in the way network infrastructure is being built and have created, what many of us would term, a revolution. Advantech will talk about drivers and models as well as Intel architecture...

Barcelona here we come!  We are back in force for the 2018 edition of MWC and we’re all geared up to accelerate ecosystem deployment of next generation networking platforms that transform the software defined network infrastructure!  But this year we are here with a bigger team from our Industrial and Embedded IoT divisions helping connect wireless sensors and IoT gateways seamlessly to the Cloud. This year at Mobile World Congress...

Boosting the uCPE White box with Carrier-Class Capabilities  CPE was tipped as one of the early favorites for network function virtualization deployment, based on its potential to dramatically reduce the complexity and the number of physical CPE devices needed to operate entire enterprise networks from small to medium and large branches. With CPE Capex and Opex savings calculated and the business transformation promises of greater network...

Telco Systems and Advantech Partner on Open vCPE Portfolio for SMB Segment Telco Systems, a leading provider of innovative CE 2.0, MPLS, IP, SDN/NFV solutions today announced a partnership with Advantech to enable the rapid deployment of its new NFVTime vCPE suite across a range of Advantech white-box appliances for vCPE. The partnership will allow Communication Service Providers (CSPs) to implement new managed services faster and more...

It’s going to be an interesting year. Is 2017 the tipping point in enterprise networking overhaul? All eyes are on the evolution of virtual Enterprise CPE (vE-CPE) roll-outs and the potential disruption that a Universal CPE box might cause as it eats up multiple hardware appliances to run them as software functions on virtual machines.  The quest for universal boxes that converge functions is nothing new, just like the universal...