Cisco Scores SD-WAN Win With NTT East

Cisco scored another SD-WAN win today with Japanese operator NTT East launching a new managed service that uses Cisco’s Viptela SD-WAN.NTT East will offer the new managed service under its virtual private network (VPN) service portfolio for enterprises beginning in July. It includes the Cisco SD-WAN Controller, the Cisco ISR 1100 series router as the customer premise equipment (CPE), the Cisco CSR 1000v as virtual CPE, and Cisco Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure as the managed SD-WAN service foundation. The Japanese operator tapped Cisco’s SD-WAN technologies to build a virtualized platform to “solve corporate challenges from workstyle reform, security measures, and labor shortage,” said Naoki Shibutani, senior executive VP and representing director at NTT East, in a statement.