du, a leading service provider in the Middle East region announced that it has successfully completed customer premises equipment virtualization trials in the UAE. vCPE seamlessly extends the benefits of a programmable network and application aware abstraction to branch locations and homes, paving the way for a dynamic and more responsive operational environment.
According to du, when commercially rolled-out in future, virtualized CPE (vCPE) technology enables service providers to lower the cost of end premises equipment and reduce the complexity of these devices while hosting the complicated services in the du cloud. This permits du to offer a "plug & play" solution for the anticipated demand for virtualized solutions in future, making service activation achievable in a matter of few hours.
Jasim Al Awadi, Vice President - Network Infrastructure & Services
We are delighted to be the first in the region to successfully complete the trials of this promising new technology. Network Function Virtualization (NFV) - and in particular vCPE is an exciting emerging new growth area in our existing portfolio and is critical to our future of consumer and enterprise growth plans and potentially introduce du to the OTT market, which will entail that du can provide its services over other service providers infrastructure like Google and Amazon. The introduction will give us the ability to provide multiple services over a virtual network. This is takes du a step closer to an application aware of network
