LONDON -- Colt Technology Services has announced its enhanced universal customer premises equipment (uCPE) solution, which brings the benefits of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) to enterprises.

This expanded functionality provides a network operating system and hosting environment for Virtual Network Functions (VNFs), such as SD WAN and firewalls, all running on standard off-the-shelf servers, with both provider managed and customer managed NFV applications being run on this platform.

This brings the following benefits of virtualization to the CPE equipment at the customer site:

Colt's Vice President Product Portfolio, Peter Coppens said: "By enhancing our uCPE offering we are aligning Colt with the future of networking. This approach allows us to deliver virtualized services from the broadest range of suppliers under end-user control. It will also enable Colt to achieve faster product development, cost savings and operational efficiency.

Colt's uCPE utilizes ADVA's Ensemble Connector as the virtualization platform and offers a host of VNFs, supporting multiple network functions, such as SD WAN and firewalls.

Colt Technology Services Group Ltd