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Comcast Business SD-WAN: Built for the Enterprise Comcast plans to compete head-on against service providers like AT&T and Verizon for enterprises' service sales, leveraging its heavy investments in ultra-broadband networks and software-defined networking with today's launch of an SD-WAN service for businesses. The cable operator's SD-WAN service is offered as a VNF and is the first service from Comcast's new SDN-enabled ActiveCore platform. In the future, Comcast plans to deliver other VNFs, such as WAN optimization and advanced security. ActiveCore platform users can use an app (available for both iPhone and Android devices) for near real-time visibility into their network's SD-WAN services. (See Comcast Business Dives Into SD-WAN Waters.) "The price of SD-WAN is $250 per month. Businesses are generally paying $300 or more for a single T1 line (1.5 Mbp/s)," Kevin O'Toole, senior vice president of product management for Comcast Business told UBB2020 via email. "Broadband economics are so disruptive that we’re now able to offer businesses 1-gig service for [approximately] $499 per month." The SD-WAN market is crowded, as more service providers, operators and traditional IT integrators target this potentially lucrative market. But Comcast expects its clean slate approach -- created by offering businesses a future-proof alternative to legacy MPLS solutions -- to differentiate it from some competitors, said O'Toole said, in a statement. Comcast has a solid and growing foundation of business customers. Within cable, business services was Comcast's fastest growing segment in 2016, enjoying 16% growth, pointed out Jason Aycock of Seeking Alpha. The operator predicts it could earn revenue of between $40 billion and $50 billion from commercial customers as it expands beyond its traditional base of small and midsize businesses into the enterprise through offerings such as ActiveCore and SD-WAN, he noted. Businesses can use ActiveCore with Comcast's DOCSIS 3.1-based gigabit broadband service that is slated to be available across the operator's footprint by the end of this year; subscribers already can get it in most of the northeast, mid-Atlantic and central United States, according to Comcast. (See Comcast Business Extends D3.1 Network.) Related posts:
— Alison Diana, Editor, UBB2020. Follow us on Twitter @UBB2020 or @alisoncdiana. |
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