December 30, 2019 - Lanner Electronics, a provider of customizable SDN and NFV network appliances and uCPE/vCPE Whitebox Solutions, announced its participation as Community Member of the Open Compute Project (OCP), an open consortium aiming to design and enable the delivery of the most efficient server, storage, and data center hardware for scalable computing. Lanner continues to play a role in industry forums, such as the Telecom Council and OCP, contributing Lanner’s expertise in developing carrier-grade network platforms for 5G Cloud-RAN, Mobile Edge Computing, and Hyper Converged Infrastructure.
By working together with OCP on open architecture business initiatives to drive network infrastructure transformation, Lanner joins the consortium for a number of projects by leveraging network disaggregation, white box economics, open source software, and software-defined standards to revolutionize the carrier industry. Joining forces with communication service providers and equipment vendors on various open source projects, Lanner leverages its efforts in Hybrid TCA and F.A.S.T modular designs to facilitate the rollout of next-generation networking solutions.
More than four years ago, Lanner has begun its focus on the SD-WAN market by offering Whitebox vCPE/uCPE, MEC servers, and HCI-ready platforms solutions at edge data centers. Designed to converge computing, storage, and networking into one hardware appliance, Lanner’s HCI-ready platform integrates the control and data planes.
