Network-as-a-Service (NaaS)
Revolutionizing the Networking Experience
Transform how you connect with Network‑as‑a‑Service (NaaS), a fully digitalized collection of networking services with affordable, usage‑based pricing. NaaS services are designed to help streamline purchasing and provisioning, simplify network management, enable flexible scalability, and deliver secure, reliable connectivity for enterprises of all sizes. In fact, a recent survey of 900+ IT pros showed that 90% plan to migrate to NaaS within three years.
NaaS is cloudifying telecom and networking, making services easy to buy, manage, and use. To achieve truly agile networking, providers must invest in the required automation and dynamic capabilities from layer one and up the networking stack, which is difficult to do with decades-old infrastructure that was not built for on-demand consumption. For this reason, telecom historically has not been able to deliver an as-a-service model. Defining an emerging technology like network-as-a-service (NaaS) can feel like a moving target, making it seem more like an overhyped catchall concept rather than an exciting and obtainable cloud model—which begs the question, what is NaaS really? Is it just an industry buzzword, or could it be a telecom gamechanger?
The “Cloudification” Of Network Services
There may not be an industry standard definition for NaaS, but I like to say that NaaS is the cloudification of networking services—achieved by simplifying the experience from start to finish, outsourcing onsite equipment and making compute and application services as easily and conveniently accessible as cloud services.
NaaS is more of an experience for all our products than it is a specific product, and we’re leveraging our underlying network infrastructure and decades of expertise to create that purely digital experience. With NaaS, you can do everything digitally, on-demand, and it takes effect in minutes or even seconds. You don’t have to wait.
Minutes Instead Of Months
At the core of NaaS is its ease of use and flexibility; it changes the networking experience.
An enterprise’s success is based on its applications, so IT teams want to create an environment where those applications can run efficiently and meet their business needs. Today they’re creating that adaptable, agile application ecosystem through a combination of their own private data centers, the centralized cloud, third-party data centers and increasingly edge compute at the “edge” of the network. NaaS provides the same level of agility in networking that enterprises currently enjoy within their on-demand, cloud-centric app environments, enabling them to be more nimble.
Contributing to this flexibility is NaaS’s consumption-based billing model. Rather than paying for peak pricing during non-peak times, enterprises can pay for the bandwidth they need, when they need it, easily scaling up or down with fair and flexible pricing as business needs change.