Orange and Equinix have just announced that the French company has expanded the geographical footprint of its model Telco Cloud in Amsterdam, Madrid and Seattle, using Equinix’s Bare Metal as a Service capability—Equinix Metal—to accelerate the deployment of its New Generation International Network. The new model allows Orange to offer its customers Telco Cloud Points of Presence (PoPs) on demand, providing essential services such as SD-WAN, CDN, 5G roaming and voice services, with predicted latency below 10 milliseconds.
The advance of the network services, largely driven by evolving customer requirements around speed of deployment and flexibility, is forcing network providers to deploy a new class of infrastructure and connectivity platform. In fact, Equinix’s 2022 Global Technology Trends Survey shows that 72% of companies surveyed worldwide are planning to expand in the next 12 months, despite economic concerns and supply chain challenges, and they rely on digital strategies to achieve this.
By integrating with Bare Metal as a Service by Equinix, Located in close proximity to its existing networks, Orange can quickly meet growing customer demand, rolling out the service from scratch in weeks rather than months. Leveraging Equinix Metal, Orange is able to accelerate its next-generation services without the upfront capital expenditures or complexities of global supply chains, while retaining full choice and control over IT infrastructure and transformation projects. digital.
«We are delighted with this partnership to deploy Orange Telco Cloud PoPs technology through Equinix Metal”explained Jean-Luc Vuillemin, Executive Vice President of Orange International Networks. «By adopting an ‘as-a-service’ infrastructure model and focusing investment on our SDN and VNF capabilities, Orange is able to provide a fully flexible and elastic solution to customers, accelerate the deployment of our planned 100 Telco Cloud PoPs, and rapidly adapt the ability to meet demand. This confirms Orange’s position as a trusted infrastructure partner, optimizing application performance with secure and consistent connectivity, regardless of end-user location, and supporting cloud management and transformation.”
Through its Telecom Cloud Platform, Orange uniquely provides its customers with optimized levels of performance, security and end-to-end flexibility. Driven by industry-leading innovation in virtualized network functions and Software Defined Networking (SDN), Orange already has 40 SDN PoPs worldwide and aims to reach 100+ “Telco Cloud PoPs” by 2024 as part of its eNGINe (New Generation International Network) transformation program.
Each Telco Cloud PoP it can host virtualized network service functions, such as voice, 5G, CDN, SD-WAN, or security services, as well as connect customers with leading content providers and cloud services. With its Telco Cloud PoP architecture, Orange customers can access and manage applications in the cloud with reliable and fast connectivity, and choose from an expanded offering of on-demand and tailored services.
