Inmarsat has selected Sandvine’s Application and Network Intelligence in the firm’s OpenStack Private Telco Cloud. The three-year deal will support Inmarsat’s work in building out its ORCHESTRA network.
ORCHESTRA is a dynamic mesh network that combines the company’s ELERA (L-band) and Global Xpress (Ka-band) satellite networks, with terrestrial 5G as well as targeted LEO satellite capacity.
Sandvine helps organizations run world-class networks with Active Network Intelligence, leveraging machine learning (ML) analytics and closed-loop automation to identify and adapt to network behavior in real-time. With Sandvine, organizations have the power of a highly automated platform from a single vendor that delivers a deep understanding of their network data to drive faster, better decisions.
Building on an existing seven-year relationship for network policy control between the two companies, the new contract spans Flexible Policy and Traffic Management, use cases for Satellite Networks, as well as Sandvine’s ScoreCard, Insights exports, cloud-optimized Active Logic Hyperscale Data Plane, and Maestro Policy Engine. Bringing Sandvine’s ML-based application classification and single-pane visualization into the cloud will enable Inmarsat to enhance traffic management capabilities and customer experience with greater scalability and lower costs.
Lyndon Cantor, CEO, Sandvine, said, “Our relationship with Inmarsat started with network policy control in 2015, and has since evolved towards new 5G network architecture for emerging 5G and satellite services. By migrating to our ActiveLogic Hyperscale Data Plane, Inmarsat can roll out new services that meet rapidly changing customer and market demands, and deploy use cases such as Network Optimization, Heavy User Management, Video Streaming Management, Wholesale and Peering Link Management, and Usage-Based Services.”
