Brocade to provide networking infrastructure support to VIRTUTEL

NEW DELHI: Specialist wholesale data and voice service provider VIRTUTEL has become the latest player in the Australian telecom market to turn to Brocade for networking infrastructure to support the new IP.

The company, managing the demands of triple-digit growth and international expansion, will deploy Brocade SDN-ready Switches and routers to deliver its services through system integrators, IT consultants, and managed service providers.

The Virtutel Network provides private network, Internet, colocation, and voice services for business, enterprise, and government segments as part of its "Global Network" strategy. The company services Asia from its Singapore presence and North America and Europe via its United States presence. Its implementation of Brocade solutions underpins this growth.

Since the beginning of 2014, Virtutel has entered the New Zealand market, opened a second office in Sydney, and established a Point-of-Presence (PoP) site in Los Angeles. In January 2015, it also went live with a Singapore PoP. Within Australia the company is looking to meet customer needs in non-traditional rollout cities, such as Darwin and Hobart, while its international growth plans include Hong Kong, India, and potentially the United Kingdom.

"With ever-greater demand for and dependence on cloud-based applications, we're seeing customers' bandwidth requirements doubling every six months, which is not something we could sustain much longer with our existing infrastructure," said David Allen, Managing Director, Virtutel Pty.

"At the same time, we need to be much more dynamic in terms of service fulfilment so software-defined networking is the way to go. Brocade solutions provide us with the cost-effective capability and flexibility we need to stay ahead of customer demand and continue on our fast growth trajectory. We are also building a Tier 1 Voice Network and the Brocade solutions are underpinning the data transmission for this as well."

"IT used to be the drivers of corporate innovation and value, and every IT department wants to meet the changing and growing needs of users. They want to deliver a platform for fast innovation on which to build a competitive digital business, just as the cloud providers do today. The same aspiration holds true for traditional service providers. Unfortunately, the reliance on legacy network architectures makes this difficult. Many even say that the old architecture is what is holding them back," said Gary Denman, Senior Director, Australia and New Zealand for Brocade.