“Service providers view the metro edge as a dilemma – it is the location for revenue-bearing service delivery, it represents an opportunity for network optimization, and yet at the same time presents the greatest operational challenges. To become agile, efficient, and application-aware, we believe networks of the future will be defined by open orchestration, software control, and management,” stated Michael Howard, co-founder and principal analyst, Infonetics Research. “Service providers will want to evaluate Ensemble OSA, since it demonstrates Overture is listening to the challenges that their Carrier Ethernet customers face.”

Operational expenses can account for up to 85 percent of a service provider’s budget. As such, improvements in operating efficiency have a dramatic effect on the bottom line. Today’s complex environment consists of multiple proprietary management systems, manually intensive processes, a multi-vendor equipment network, and multiple service provider interconnections. Ensemble OSA minimizes operational complexities and inefficiencies by simplifying and automating essential tasks in service creation, activation, and assurance.

To remain competitive, today’s service providers must move from simply selling bandwidth to offering intelligent and dynamic application-focused services. Ensemble OSA unifies connect, compute, and storage resources to enable a new generation of on-demand, application-aware services. This new architecture radically accelerates the innovation cycle, shortening service delivery and assurance times from weeks and months to hours and days.

“Ensemble OSA is a game-changer for our customers,” said Mike Aquino, president and CEO, Overture. “Service providers do not have a demand problem – they have a revenue and cost problem. They are working to transform their bandwidth business into one focused on the customer application experience while dramatically driving down the cost of managing their infrastructure. With Ensemble OSA, we are helping service providers achieve both objectives by bringing the proven benefits of the cloud to the metro edge.”

As an active member of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), MEF, and ETSI NFV project, Overture has engineered Ensemble OSA using open API standards, including OpenFlow, to support straightforward integration into both existing network infrastructures and the evolving communications ecosystem.

Ensemble OSA is comprised of three layers, each of which may include Overture developed components and those developed by service providers or third party vendors.