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XipLink joins Lanner Electronics’ SDN/NFV Alliance

 XipLink has teamed with Lanner Electronics to make its disaggregated virtual network functions available to the Lanner ecosystem.

“We are delighted to provide our service provider partners access to a much wider range of platforms, to address  the ever-increasing demand for bandwidth at the furthest edges of the globe”, says Jaco Botha, XipLink SVP of Product. “The market for hybrid and wireless networking solutions is expanding with fiber, fixed wireless, LTE, 5G, LEO, MEO, and GEO satellite constellations all as viable connectivity options. XipLink Wireless Link

Balancing and Bonding technology allows seamless traffic steering and highly scalable acceleration. The Lanner and XipLink collaboration promises to extract maximum value from the available network capacity, in challenging remote areas like maritime, defense and cellular backhaul.”

Lanner’s white-box network appliances are specifically designed for VNF edge deployments in remote areas, such as maritime, military, and critical infrastructure. They provide low latency, high availability, crypto acceleration, failover SFP+, WiFi 6, and LTE/5G connectivity, as well as high core counts for network virtualization. “We work closely with XipLink to advance hardware and software compatibility in solution development to escalate performance”, says Sven Freudenfeld, CTO of Lanner Telecom Applications BU. “Highly interoperable systems allow service providers to rapidly test combinations of latest components, resulting in reduced time needed for validation, and accelerated time-to-market”