Few months back Oracle acquisition of Acme Packet surprised everyone. The acquisition explained the unexplained changing industry dynamic and forced ecosystem player to realign their business strategy to maintain or increase their presence through innovative managed services portfolio. The focus shifted from network management to smart service delivery.
In Feb 2013, Sonus Network collaborated with Broadsoft to target Unified communication, SIP trunking and inter-working. Sonus already leader of Session Border controller ( SBC’s) through their innovation integrated feature on PCRF, PCRE, Security, CAC and many other captured many contract from competitors in the Service provider and Enterprise segment. Their entry into UC segment through an acquisition enabled customers to get consolidated solution for triple play.
Now, Juniper and Sonus collaborated to enhance services or product delivery using Software defined Network Principle. The smart aggregation and segregation of SBC, Routers and Policy Engine Pool would be used to develop self-healing intelligent traffic provisioning management. It would also help customers to upgrade or downgrade traffic delivery to deal with real and non-real time traffic without network over provisioning of network. The capabilities would enable service providers of create dynamic priority based hierarchical service management to fulfill real time traffic SLA commitment. The combination of above features with Juniper JunosV App Engine would offer service provider on the go availability, reachability, scalability, adoptability, security, QoS to deliver triple play services or product or Apps lines. The customer would be able to achieve their requirements on consolidated mirrored service delivery, network optimization, higher capacity utilization, QoS, SLA, Regulatory compliance.
With the growing adoption of UC, Rich Communication, M2M,IoT; the proposed collaboration is going to bring an opportunity tap the untapped revenue opportunities.
