BT has expanded its Cisco-based SDN and NFV solutions with the global launch of a new SD-WAN managed service using Cisco technology.
BT Connect Cisco SD-WAN provides customers with a clear view of data flows across their WAN, allowing them to optimise traffic.
BT's orchestration capabilities are a key component of the new service, enabling it to correlate data from across a customer's hybrid network, providing a complete picture of incidents and causes to manage day-to-day network operations effectively.
With the service BT offers an in-life management and reporting and analytics package, together with a choice of SD-WAN security solutions.
Over and above future releases planned by Cisco, BT will invest in a programme of features for the managed service.
Keith Langridge, vice president of network services at BT, said: "Over 90 per cent of BT's global WAN customers use Cisco technology and the majority ask us to manage it. This announcement gives them a choice of physical or virtualised Cisco SD-WAN portfolio delivered as managed services backed by our excellent security credentials."
The new managed service is being launched within BT's Dynamic Network Services programme.