Virtualplatform enhances SD-WAN orchestration platform

Virtualplatform, an Australian-developed orchestration platform designed to simplify the lifecycle management of telecommunications services, has expanded its capabilities to further support organisations operating large, distributed networks.

Originally built to automate the qualification, procurement, provisioning and management of services such as NBN and fibre ethernet across multiple suppliers, Virtualplatform provides a single orchestration layer that eliminates the operational complexity typically associated with managing telecommunications infrastructure.

Now, what the company has historically done for service providers is now being applied to enterprise IT teams managing large, distributed connectivity estates - particularly in retail-style environments.

Virtualplatform has significantly refined multi-site rollout capability, with the platform now supporting bulk qualification and ordering across large numbers of locations, with template-driven provisioning based on store type/carrier.

For retailers opening or refreshing sites constantly, this removes a large portion of the manual coordination that typically sits across carrier portals, the company claimed.

Virtualplatform has also extended visibility into how those services sit beneath SD-WAN environments.

In practice, that means being able to map carrier services to sites and more quickly determine whether an issue sits in the SD-WAN overlay or the underlying connectivity and then streamline supplier engagement from there.

Underpinning all of this is the supplier plug-in model, which lets the company onboard API-enabled telcos quickly and maintain a vendor-neutral layer across them.

“Large, distributed organisations often rely on dozens of supplier systems and manual processes to maintain their connectivity,” said Virtualplatform co-founder Piers Tyler.

“Our goal has always been to simplify that complexity by providing a neutral orchestration layer above the carriers. As more enterprises deploy SD-WAN in retail and branch environments, extending orchestration into the underlying connectivity layer becomes a natural evolution.

Last year, the company introduced a white-label mobile app for Internet Service Providers.