WASHINGTON, Jan. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) announced that it won a task order, worth up to $1.6 billion, to provide secure network services and IT modernization solutions to the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) via the General Services Administration’s Enterprise…
Los Angeles, 7 January 2020 – MEF is pleased to announce that Nuage Networks from Nokia, Versa Networks, and Infovista are the first technology vendors certified to support MEF 3.0 SD-WAN services. This certification enables service and technology providers to validate the conformance of their services and products…
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Windstream Enterprise (WE), a managed communications service provider, has been recognized as the “2019 SD-WAN Service Provider of the Year – North America” by MEF, the prestigious nonprofit international telecom industry consortium. The MEF Awards program is the largest…
The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) is holding its annual conference this week in Los Angeles and the focus is abundantly clear. SD-WAN, the emerging enterprise connectivity application standard, is all the rage here and MEF leadership outlined the organization’s intention…
DALLAS and BELMONT, Calif., November 04, 2019 — AT&T (NYSE:T) is expanding its relationship with RingCentral, Inc. (NYSE:RNG) making AT&T Office@Hand a lead offer for UCaaS solutions as part of its broad Voice and Collaboration portfolio. Based on the RingCentral® platform, AT&T Office@Hand…
Frontier today launched Frontier Managed SD-WAN, highlighting end-customer control as an advantage. The move comes at a time when companies such as Frontier that historically were incumbent local carriers are putting more attention towards the business services market as their…
Thanks to corporations replacing legacy routers with software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN), the global market for the SD-WAN technology jumped by 23% in the second quarter of the year, according to a new report from IHS Markit | Technology, now…
OCTOBER 08, 2019 — LITTLE ROCK, Ark.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Windstream Enterprise (WE), a managed communications services provider, announced that its OfficeSuite UC® application now works with the Google Assistant, one of the leading digital assistant tools in the world. The combination of OfficeSuite UC…
Little Rock, Arkansas — September 24, 2019 — (BUSINESS WIRE)– Windstream Enterprise (WE), a leading supplier of advanced network communications, announced today its entire portfolio of SD-WAN and Managed Network Security (MNS) services is now PCI DSS compliant. “Network security continues to…
Windstream Enterprise is expanding its SD-WAN portfolio by including an offering from Fortinet. The company had relied on VMWare solutions since 2017 – adding Fortinet’s SD-WAN technology will give customers additional choices and offers secure, cloud-ready networking capabilities combined with…
Carrier standards body MEF said today that it has released the final draft of its SD-WAN standard. The MEF SD-WAN standard aims to drive revenue for managed SD-WAN services by providing common service definitions that will enable end users to…
New rankings from Vertical Systems Group put AT&T, Hughes, Verizon, Windstream, CenturyLink, Aryaka, Fusion and Comcast, respectively atop its 2018 carrier managed SD-WAN leaderboard, which measures SD-WAN market share. According to Vertical Systems Group, these companies had the highest market…
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