ENNI provides an industry standard way to quickly and seamlessly connect enterprise networks with carrier Ethernet facilities, ensuring faster rollout and advanced visibility across virtualized network connections.

BACKGROUND:

Enterprises faced with the challenge of supporting a global workforce and the need to provide access to an expansive library of online and media rich content, require network controls they grew accustomed to with local area networks. ENNI provides this visibility and control over service performance, and helps customers build and manage networks for a "24x7x365" economy.

The challenge is that no single network has ubiquitous coverage. Service providers seek out partners to ensure global service coverage and need to interconnect with others at a local, regional and international level. Through ENNI, service providers can facilitate global coverage via a standard connection to local, regional and international networks. With global adoption of ENNI, the stage is set for seamless reach to remote offices, corporate headquarters, data centers and more.

But how do carriers assure that service attributes, including performance and support, are maintained across other networks? Carriers are looking for a means to assure the integrity of services, and seeking flexible technologies to support connectivity in multi-vendor environments. In the past, this was done through extensive operations and engineering coordination, and success was determined by the parties' ability to collaborate.