New Virtual CPE Supports VNF Hypervisor Solutions for SD-WAN

GAITHERSBURG, MARYLAND: Patton Electronics a time-tested, brick-and-mortar manufacturer of IP network equipment has officially released its virtual SmartNode (vSN) line of virtualized network function (VNF) software CPE products, the company announced today. The SmartNode virtual CPE offering for hypervisor implementation streamlines SD-WAN service deployment by providing a set of cloud-native software CPE products for download and deployment with bare metal on-premise hardware a.k.a. universal CPE (uCPE). Unlike many competing virtual CPE products the Patton vSN puts no limit on the number of registered users or sessions. Call capacity is easily scaled up or down as needed using a floating license model that automatically distributes licenses from the Cloud to SDN hypervisors wherever they are located.