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Sep 14, 2017

Telco Systems and AAEON Partner on uCPE Offerings

Joint offering introduces plug-and-play, service ready uCPE running SD-WAN, Firewall and additional managed network services



MANSFIELD, MA and TAPEI, TAIWAN, September 14, 2017 — Telco Systems, the leading provider of innovative CE 2.0, MPLS, IP, SDN/NFV solutions, and AAEON, the leading designer and manufacturer of network appliances, today announced that the two companies will partner to offer joint uCPE solutions for telcos and managed service providers. 

AAEON is a prominent global manufacturer of computer hardware systems and a subsidiary of ASUS. As part of this partnership between the two companies, Telco Systems will make its optimized NFVTime solution available on white box appliances from AAEON’s FWS series. AAEON’s FWS series are SDN/NFV-ready network appliances built on Intel® x86 architecture in desktop and rackmount form factors. The platforms are designed to enable network function virtualization and deliver flexibility and cost advantages for the creation of agile and profitable service management.

NFVTime provides a complete service environment to rapidly launch and manage NFV services. NFVTime runs on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) white box hardware and includes a carrier-class NFVi-OS and a broad portfolio of certified VNFs that are centrally managed and orchestrated. NFVTime gives telcos and managed service providers the service agility to smoothly deploy any VNF service chain, including SD-WAN, vRouter, vFirewall, vProbe, vSecurity and much more, remotely and at any time with zero touch, plug-and-play provisioning. 

“The market for uCPE devices is growing rapidly and strategically important to us,” said Howard Lin, CEO at AAEON. “We have been impressed with Telco Systems’ innovations and technology leadership in this space and this new partnership will enable us to rapidly expand into this space.”

“We are pleased with the strong demand that we are experiencing for our NFVTime solution from both service providers and enterprises,” said Ariel Efrati, CEO at Telco Systems. “Partnering with AAEON will enable us extend our NFVTime offering using AAEON high quality white box appliances and contribute to fulfilling the promise of NFV technologies and virtualized services for service providers.”