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SPIT Explained
Service Provider Information Technology, or SPIT, is Light Reading's term for the evolving set of non-traditional telecom (and data networking) technologies that allow for a greater degree of flexibility in the creation, management, delivery, and monetization of new-generation communications services.
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SPIT Infographic
What exactly is Service Provider IT and how does it relate to the communications ecosystem? Here's a graphic that'll give you a snapshot of what we're talking about and appeal to your inherent aesthetic sensibilities
SPIT Manifesto
What is SPIT, why is it 'hot stuff' and how does it relate to the major challenges facing communications service providers today? The updated SPIT Manifesto answers these questions and achieves the near impossible task of giving a slime green splat a happy home.
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SPIT Video
For operators looking to develop, deliver and monetize new services, run their companies more efficiently and provide an overall better experience for their customers, Service Provider IT, or SPIT, is just as important as the network.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- For the last several months SDN has been all the buzz, but we haven’t heard much in the way of actual deployments. Today Embrane – the leader in delivering Layer 3-7 software-defined network (SDN) services for enterprises – is bucking this trend, announcing 2 customer deployments of its SDN services platform at PEER 1 Hosting and SunGard Availability Services.
As awareness builds across enterprises around adoption of SDN technologies, these companies are demanding solutions from their service providers. Just two of the numerous potential applications for Embrane, SunGard and PEER 1 Hosting are the latest companies who will deploy Embrane solutions for private/public cloud services and enterprise disaster recovery.
Private/Public Cloud Services – PEER 1 Hosting has integrated Embrane into its cloud portal, enabling its enterprise customers to spin up fully-elastic firewalls, site-to-site VPN, and load balancers in 90 seconds. These elastic network services enhance PEER 1 Hosting’s current cloud-based compute and storage offerings and provide their customers with one of the most complete IaaS solutions on the market.
Disaster Recovery – SunGard Availability Services has deployed Embrane to enhance its secure and compliant Recover2Cloud services suite by improving response times as part of its contractually-guaranteed, tiered recovery services. With load balancers and firewalls from Embrane, SunGard enterprise customers benefit from pre-configured network services that are provisioned in seconds in the event their primary data center suffers a failure.
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