Edgewater Networks to Provide Advanced Service Assurance and SD-WAN Services for Centile’s ISTRA UC PaaS Service in the UK

SAN JOSE, Calif. & SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France-- June 14, 2018-- Edgewater Networks, the leader in Network Edge Orchestration, announced Centile, one of Europe’s leading providers of Unified Communications platforms for operators and integrators, will be using Edgewater Networks service assurance and SD-WAN capabilities to support on-site diagnostics and remote site failover for its ISTRA Cloud PaaS offering in the UK. Centile’s ISTRA Cloud PaaS provides a broad range of UC applications services from hosted PBX to UCaaS with seamless mobile network SIM integration. ISTRA Cloud is a carrier neutral ‘bring your own interconnects’ offering for service providers and resellers. Centile’s PaaS is the first UK offering to leverage Edgewater Networks’ market leading service assurance and SD-WAN services in the UK market. “By leveraging Edgewater Networks’ platform, our PaaS customers will have the ability to quickly identify issues as well as be proactive to support customer premise installations without the need to send field engineers,” said  Justin Hamilton-Martin, Regional Associate Director, Centile. “Edgewater Networks will also enable us to provide the industry leading failover capability to maintain service levels for sites connected via more than one WAN connection, adding essential resilience for important customer sites.” Edgewater Networks’ service assurance and SD-WAN solutions include the cloud-based EdgeView Service Control Center and customer premises-based EdgeMarc Intelligent Edges. Network Edge Orchestration offers a host of cutting edge functionality and network intelligence capability to benefit operators, including zero-touch provisioning, configuration, security and active service management tools. IP Endpoints are connected via the EdgeMarc Intelligent Edges, giving service providers the ability to remotely monitor, manage and troubleshoot all endpoints through the EdgeView Service Control Center. “We are delighted to be working with Centile and their ISTRA Cloud PaaS service in the UK,” said  Mike Wilkinson, VP of International & Sales Development for Edgewater Networks. “Recently the UK market for hosted services has lacked real innovation; Centile are bringing some disruptive new capabilities to the channel including FMC and Edgewater Networks’ highly advanced service assurance and SD-WAN based resilience functionality.” To learn more, please visit  www.edgewaternetworks.com and www.centile.com.