Pacnet announced the availability of its
Pacnet Enabled Network (PEN)
in data centers throughout Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, and
now the United States in response to strong market demand. Enabling
Enterprise and Carrier customers to rapidly and cost-effectively
create the foundation of a virtual, integrated data center, PEN is a
fully automated software-defined network (SDN) providing a flexible and
scalable service platform that is agile and lowers total cost of network
operations.
Since its
beta launch last November, PEN has garnered significant interest
from customers spanning the IT, logistics, manufacturing and financial
services sectors in Australia, Singapore, Japan and Hong Kong, as well
as the U.S. PEN allows customers to
customize and configure their network resources based on performance and quality of service requirements under a
flexible pricing model and industry-leading SLAs.
Through the PEN web-based GUI or
Pacnet Connect, customers can provision network services between two
locations in minutes without going through the traditional, long lead,
manual provisioning process. PEN also enables customers to build network
interconnects with bandwidth and performance
characteristics tailored to their unique business requirements.
PEN offers customers
access to Pacnet’s extensive network of data centers and major carriers,
creating a virtualized, cross-connected Asia-Pacific ecosystem. It also
has the capability to extend enterprise-class
data centers and private clouds to any external cloud vendors with its
OpenFlow-based software controller, offering customers the flexibility
to instantly provision cloud compatible networks throughout the region.
“The launch of PEN enables customers to
build the high-performance and
cloud-ready networks needed to overcome networking challenges prompted
by the growth of cloud computing,” said Jim Fagan, President of Managed Services at Pacnet. “With PEN, Pacnet brings
cloud provisioning to the network, empowering on-demand, scalable bandwidth provisioning based on customers’ unique performance and QoS requirements.”
According to
Transparency Market Research’s new market report “Software Defined
Networking (SDN) Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth,
Trends, and Forecast, 2012 – 2018”, the global market for SDN is
expected to reach US$3.52 billion by 2018,
growing at a CAGR of 61.5 percent from 2012 to 2018. This market growth is
primarily driven by the increasing demand for cloud services. As a result, today’s businesses are expecting network gear purchased to be ‘SDN compatible’ or upgradeable.
Pacnet will continue to
expand PEN’s availability on a global scale throughout the rest of the
year, with the next geographic rollout planned in Korea and Taiwan -
providing customers with scalable bandwidth,
integrating software-enabled intelligence with Pacnet’s unsurpassed
network of data centers and undersea cable infrastructure.
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