Juniper Networks announced that GCI, Alaska’s largest telecommunications company, has deployed Juniper’s Contrail SD-WAN solutions to create innovative new service offerings around its virtual managed service platform CloudFlex SD-WAN.
GCI’s CloudFlex, enabled by Juniper’s Contrail SD-WAN, comprised of Contrail Service Orchestration, the NFX250 Network Services Platform, the SRX Series Services Gateway and the vSRX Virtual Firewall, allows the telecommunications leader to offer enterprises new services, such as managed SD-WAN, managed security and other virtual network functions in the future without needing to install physical appliances on-site and dispatching humans to provision the service.
This new level of automation, based on centralized orchestration with end-to-end automation, will allow GCI to expand into regions across the United States, where it previously could not with a hardware-centric network.
With Juniper, GCI expects to reduce provisioning times for its customers by more than half and simplify operations by cutting service-fulfillment costs by more than 60 percent, the company said.
“GCI is ushering in a new era of what it means to be a digital service provider and looked to Juniper as a partner to deliver managed services even more effectively,” said John Barnhardt, vice president of business product development at GCI.
“CloudFlex enables GCI to provide our customers with new services faster than ever before with the convenience of using just one appliance versus a whole server rack,” Barnhard added.
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