Pacnet today announced the beta launch of the Pacnet Enabled Network (PEN), an industry-first service platform that leverages software-defined-networking (SDN) to deliver flexible and scalable bandwidth configurable by customers, heralding a major advance in the capabilities of enterprises and carriers to build high-performance and cloud-ready networks.
Powered by Pacnet’s innovative Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) model, PEN delivers scalable bandwidth and software-enabled intelligence, allowing customers to dynamically provision bandwidth in minutes, based on their business needs. PEN users are able to create a virtualised cross-connected environment leveraging Pacnet’s wholly-owned network of data centres and telecommunications infrastructure for unrivalled coverage of financial and business centres across Asia-Pacific.
“PEN is a quantum-leap for the industry that catapults networking into the cloud-computing age,” said Jim Fagan, President of Managed Services at Pacnet. “With the region’s most extensive coverage of data centres and subsea cable network, Pacnet has the capabilities to execute and deliver next-generation tools to help our customers stay on top of their networking needs in the demanding world of cloud.”
PEN offers customers the ability to self-provision bandwidth, manage and monitor network usage and account information in real-time. The platform utilises OpenFlow, an open-source technology, for high-performance network management, providing seamless connectivity to a hybrid cloud service environment, giving customers the flexibility to choose their cloud vendor.
PEN at a glance: key customer benefits
· Leverage Pacnet’s unrivalled global infrastructure: PEN is built on an enterprise class network, which offers point-to-point international private connections to customers, and extensive data centre facilities across 10 data centres in Asia-Pacific.
· Fully automated provisioning with flexible network optimization options: PEN customers can provision dynamic bandwidth within minutes either through Pacnet Connect, a Web-based portal, or via an Application Programming Interface (API), eliminating the need for manual processes. This gives users the control to customise and configure network based on their performance and quality of service requirements.
· Pay for what you use: With a flexible pricing model, customers will be billed according to the amount, quality and duration of network usage.
· Hybrid cloud gateway: PEN, which utilises an OpenFlow based software controller, extends enterprise class data centres and private clouds to any external cloud vendors, offering customers the flexibility to create a truly virtual Asia-Pacific data centre.
As enterprises continue to rapidly embrace cloud computing to meet their business needs, the-increasing volume and complexity of data traffic place severe strains on networks that are based on traditional hierarchical architectures. PEN puts Pacnet at the forefront of industry efforts to meet the networking challenges prompted by the growth of cloud computing, offering customers scalable bandwidth that adapts to their networking requirements, integrating software-enabled intelligence with Pacnet’s unsurpassed network of wholly-owned data centre and undersea cable infrastructure.
PEN offers customers access to major multiple or large carriers and data centres through the Pacnet network, and creates a virtualised cross-connected environment. This means customers can provision a network from the Pacnet Hong Kong data centre to their on-premises facilities in Australia.
With a full launch expected in the first quarter of 2014, PEN is at the centre of Pacnet’s transformation into a “next-gen” provider of cloud, data centre and telecommunication services, increasing options for customers and generating additional synergies with other existing Pacnet managed services offerings.
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About Pacnet
Pacnet is Asia-Pacific’s leading provider of managed data connectivity solutions to major telecommunications carriers, large multinational enterprises and government entities in the Asia-Pacific region. Ownership of the region’s most extensive high-capacity submarine cable systems with over 46,000 km of fibre and connectivity to interconnected data centres across 14 cities in the Asia-Pacific region gives Pacnet unparalleled reach to major business centres in key markets including China, India, Japan and the United States. Combined with a comprehensive set of managed network and value-added data centre services, its assets and experience in the region have helped Pacnet service large businesses worldwide including Fortune 500 companies. Pacnet is headquartered in Hong Kong and Singapore, with offices in all key markets in the Asia-Pacific region and North America. For more information, please visit: www.pacnet.com