Your business customers want SD-WAN, but most don’t have the staff to run it themselves. If you integrate a third-party SD-WAN platform to serve them, you typically end up selling someone else’s hardware, stacking a second box in every branch, and giving up margin on every deal. Ekinops’s approach is different: SD-WAN runs as a software upgrade on the router fleet you already have deployed, sold under your own brand, with your go-to-market model intact. The architecture spans three tiers, service provider, reseller partner, and end customer, each with its own portal, so you can run the service directly or delegate parts of it to partners and customers.
Rolling out a managed SD-WAN offer raises three questions most service providers face early on:
Find your answer to common questions on Ekinops SD-WAN technology for Service Providers.
SD-WAN Director’s admin interface, and the customer and partner portals, can be fully customized under your own name and branding, so you keep ownership of the customer relationship through every contract renewal.
No. SD-WAN runs as a set of services embedded directly in OneOS6, the operating system already running on Ekinops access routers. You can turn an existing VPN or MPLS network into an SD-WAN network with a remote software license upgrade, no hardware replacement or site visit required.
SD-WAN Director is built on a 3-tier architecture, service provider, reseller partner, and end customer, each with its own web portal and fine grained role-based access control. You can manage the entire service directly or securely delegate visibility and specific settings, such as application policy or traffic prioritization, to your partners or customers.
It lets you test, validate, and design your managed SD-WAN offer without a major upfront infrastructure investment: test routers, temporary access to a private cloud environment hosting a virtual controller and SD-WAN Director, and hands-on support from an Ekinops SD-WAN systems architect.
