Alcatel-Lucent’s Nuage Networks SDN venture has broadened its product line to tackle enterprise WANs, an increasingly vital market for the technology.

Nuage’s Virtualized Networks Services (VNS) product is designed to help enterprises simplify the provisioning of secure network services to remote locations. It is intended to extend policy-driven network automation to branch locations to speed the deployment of new sites, and reduce operational expenditures.

Nuage joins Cisco and a handful of start-ups targeting SDNs at enterprise WANs, where infrastructures have been rigid and unchanged for a decade or more. The same benefits that SDN offer for data centers – ease of configuration, extensibility and operation in virtual environments – can be extended to the WAN, they say.

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