Cyan and CenturyLink have announced that CenturyLink will deploy Cyan’s Blue Planet NFV Orchestrator to deliver NFV-enhanced services to enterprise and small and midsized business (SMB) customers.

This is an important sale at the US third-largest service provider for Cyan, over larger competitors.

Cyan will provide CenturyLink with their Programmable Services Backbone (PSB). CenturyLink’s PSB will provide a platform that enables the delivery of next-generation virtualized services to its customers. This software-based functionality will allow CenturyLink to quickly scale services to address changing business demands while reducing the time to deploy new networking services in market.

“CenturyLink has taken a leadership position in driving the changes required to build a more service- centric network that derives maximum value from network assets while addressing evolving customer requirements,” said Aamir Hussain, CTO, CenturyLink. “The Programmable Services Backbone delivers an open, software-enabled architecture based on Cyan’s NFV orchestration technology that will allow us to rapidly deploy new services to enterprise and SMB customers across our footprint.”

“CenturyLink is leading the network transformation movement that is so critical to the future of our industry,” said Mike Hatfield, president, Cyan. “We’re proud that Cyan’s Blue Planet is playing a critical role in how they deploy multi-vendor VNFs as services to end customers. Together, CenturyLink and Cyan are unifying the data center, virtual resources, WAN, and managed services to create a new way of doing business for network operators.”

For details on the announcement, see http://www.cyaninc.com/company/news-room/press-releases/2015/centurylink-to-offer-nfv-enhanced-services-to-enterprise-and-smb-customers-with-cyans-blue-planet-#.VQQlq-kg_wo

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