Aricent partners with Lanner on SD-WAN uCPE offering
Summary
Aricent has teamed up with white box vendor Lanner Electronics to enable SD-WAN functionality on uCPE devices for businesses. “As enterprises continue the road to digital transformation, they increasingly are incorporating uCPE as a key component of that journey,” said N. Mohan Rangan, Aricents chief engineering officer, in a prepared statement. “Aricent’s partnership with Lanner creates a next-generation framework that enables enterprises to increase capacity and improve resiliency by offloading hardware and supporting stackable systems, ultimately reducing costs by as much as 80% over traditional solutions.” According to research by IHS Markit, the uCPE market is projected to grow from $7.7 million in 2017 to $1.02 billion in 2022, which is a cumulative $1.9 billion market over the six years from 2017 to 2022. Working in tandem with network functions virtualization, uCPE reduces the number of devices on a customers footprint that are needed to provision services. Lee Doyle, principal analyst at Doyle Research, wrote in a recent FierceTelecom blog that uCPE challenges include service providers "sorting through multiple supplier or open-source options for each feature, integrating the various features into a common centralized, management platform and deploying a cost-effective platform with the horsepower to run this functionality with good performance."