Frontier becomes the first service
provider in North America to offer Nile's AI-driven networking platform
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Happening: Today, Frontier (NASDAQ: FYBR),
announced it is introducing Network-as-a-Service (NaaS), a new model for delivering scalable wired and wireless networks
via the cloud, to its business customers. Frontier is the first service
provider in North America to team up with Nile, the leader in next-generation
enterprise networks, to offer its artificial intelligence (AI)-driven,
automated NaaS platform.
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Why It Matters: Frontier, the largest
pure-play fiber provider in the country, is expanding
its offerings for its business customers. With Nile, Frontier is enabling
businesses to take full advantage of secure, reliable connectivity, while spending
less time and resources operating their networks.
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Get Stoked: "We want our business customers
to focus on what they do best - driving business success - and leave their
connectivity to us. That's why we teamed with Nile to offer our customers a
hands-off approach to running their networks,"
said Ettienne Brandt, Executive Vice President of Business at Frontier. "Together,
we are providing businesses easy-to-manage,
high-performing and secure connectivity."
The Details:
Frontier delivers high-speed, reliable fiber connectivity to
businesses, including healthcare providers, universities and state and local governments, in 25 states.
Now, Frontier is expanding its offerings for its business
customers. With Nile, Frontier is providing a cloud-based solution that is
smart, improves security and simplifies network management. The Nile NaaS platform has built-in security features and uses
AI to make automatic upgrades and proactively detect and resolve service issues,
ensuring better network performance.
This new offering saves Frontier's business customers time, money and
resources by reducing the operational burden of managing their networks. Additionally,
it provides Frontier's customers with the flexibility to add or subtract
services like switches, firewalls and wireless access points, which are all included
in a monthly subscription with zero upfront cost.
Hear From Nile:
"We're thrilled to
partner with Frontier to deliver the next stage in the evolution of the
enterprise network," said Pankaj Patel, Nile's CEO and co-founder. "The Nile
Access Service is ideal for service providers like Frontier, as it provides a
complete wired and wireless Local Area Network (LAN) offering that enables them
to deepen their partnerships with their enterprise customers but doesn't add to
their operational burden. It also eliminates the need for network lifecycle
management for Frontier and its customers, enabling everyone involved to focus
on mission-critical applications and services the enterprise network was built
to support."