Ufone Increases Customer Satisfaction while Saving Almost 1,000% with netElastic vBNG
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Californer -- netElastic, an innovative software company providing high-performance routing solutions, today announced Ufone has selected netElastic's virtual broadband network gateway (vBNG) to keep their services fast, reliable, and cost-effective.

Ufone, based in Auckland, Zealand, has become one of the country's leading VoIP service providers by delivering state-of-the-art communications services. Ufone was looking for a BNG (or BRAS) as part of a network upgrade that took months of meticulous planning and implementation. In addition to evaluating netElastic vBNG, Ufone also looked at BNGs from a few large router manufacturers.

"The big router manufacturers required close to 1,000% more investment dollars for a single BNG (compared to netElastic), since we were expected to purchase a larger number of licenses up-front than we actually needed," according to Ufone's CEO Nigel Rayneau. "The cost savings by using the netElastic vBNG on the provider edge allowed us to invest more in our core and backbone infrastructure, allowing us to provide all the benefits and features that our larger competitors provide, but also to strengthen our overall network for less cost."

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Ufone is dedicated to deploying VoIP systems with outstanding reliability and functionality. When it came to their broadband network gateways, Ufone was also looking for BNG vendors that could bring extensive functionality and innovation to Ufone and their customers.

According to Ufone's Rayneau, "The feature set of the netElastic vBNG has allowed us to become more competitive and offer products and services for our clients that were previously not feasible due to either technical or cost constraints, and has given us complete control of our network end-to-end for a much lower operational cost than initially anticipated."

"Ufone has become a VoIP leader with a loyal customer base due to their intense focus on product reliability, outstanding functionality, and cost-effective solutions," said David Williams, Senior Vice-President of Sales & Marketing at netElastic. "vBNG has been designed for performance, reliability, and cost savings, which make it an excellent fit with Ufone."

About netElastic

netElastic is an innovative software company providing high-performance routing solutions for service providers. Built on our extensive experience in NFV and software-defined networking (SDN) technologies, we deliver solutions optimized for high availability, scalability, efficiency, and networking performance. Recently, netElastic vBNG software running on the Intel® Select Solution for NFVI Forwarding Platform achieved over 380 Gbps throughput. For more information, please visit www.netelastic.com

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About Ufone

Ufone is a New Zealand service provider that specializes in Business VoIP Services and is dedicated to helping businesses use "State of the Art" communications systems to make them more productive and efficient. Ufone designs, installs, manages, and supports VoIP systems.