Criterion Networks, a leading network transformation enabler, today
announced full availability of its Criterion SDCloud platform for service
providers and managed service providers (MSPs). As service providers are
actively working towards evaluating, designing and creating SD-WAN managed
services for their enterprise customers, Criterion Networks is enabling them
with on-demand, custom SD-WAN solution environments for service creation, GTM,
customer PoC, and learning needs.
Addressing SD-WAN Requirements of Service Providers and MSPs
Today, enterprise customers seek use-case solutions, preferably delivered as
a managed service, to further their business agility and secure digital
infrastructure needs. Customers are also keen to experience the use-cases and
evaluate and onboard the right solution to meet their unique requirements.
Given most adoption plans are brownfield projects, customers also need to
understand and evaluate their integration and migration needs for phased
deployment.
While addressing the demands of enterprise customers, service providers are
challenged to offer differentiated managed services that strengthen their
market positions and best meet each customer's unique needs. "Leading
analyst research shows that almost 95 percent of enterprises expect to be using
SD-WAN within 24 months, so service providers are rushing to bring managed
services to market and engaging customers on their SD-WAN journey," said
Srinivas Vegesna, CEO of Criterion Networks. "Across SD-WAN, Security and
other virtual network service use-cases, Criterion accelerated customer PoC
time by 70 percent while providing excellent customer engagement and user
experience. Full availability of Criterion SDCloud-with newly added service
creation enablement capabilities-means we can broaden our global MSP and
service provider partnerships for long-term growth."
Tata Communications IZO SDWAN focuses on reducing complexity for its
customers, enabling them to build an agile and secure digital infrastructure.
This involves reducing the customer evaluation and onboarding time while still
meeting each customer's unique requirements. Tata Communications is partnering
with Criterion Networks to deliver a hosted virtual SD-WAN environment for
conducting Sales Demos, supporting PoC sandboxes, and designing-using Criterion
Designer-customized deployments.
"The Criterion Networks hosted IZOTM SDWAN Sales Demo is a great way to
engage our customers and quickly showcase the immediate value of our
solution," said Song Toh, vice president of product, managed network
services, Tata Communications. "The other Criterion modules, including the
learning labs, PoC sandboxes and Designer, are valuable for our engineering and
operations teams to equip themselves with highly advanced technologies, and
design customized environments to address unique customer requirements."
Going Live
Criterion's enablement cloud complements the service provider's production
cloud, allowing for seamless migration of validated customer PoCs and new
install designs from the Criterion cloud to the production cloud. Service
providers are able to rely on Criterion to design, develop and validate most
success criteria for a new service creation, a customer PoC or a new install
project.
"Criterion SDCloud platform addresses the lifecycle enablement needs of
service providers to accelerate their service creation and customer
activities," said Vegesna. "Not only does Criterion Networks equip
service providers and MSPs for their service creation and operation needs, but
it also delivers an exceptional solution evaluation and adoption experience to
engage their customers."
Criterion also provides consulting programs and fully customizable hands-on
Learning Labs tailored for skills development to ramp up customers on the new
software-defined use-cases.