Orange Positioned as Leader in Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Network Services, Global

Orange Business has once again been positioned as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Services, Global for the 18th consecutive year. We believe that our Leaders position validates our ability to steer the future of global network services and deploy our strategy towards the promise of intent-based networking.

Orange Positioned as Leader in Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Network Services, Global

 

"In the past 12 months, Gartner has seen accelerated change in enterprise requirements and buying criteria for global networks. Enterprises are increasingly focusing on agility, their adoption of cloud services and greater use of the internet as primary WAN transport."* Orange has anticipated these trends by evolving our hybrid WAN solutions to offer a new SD-WAN by Orange portfolio of services. Over the past year we have launched SD-WAN services with best-of-breed partners, such as Cisco/Viptela and Riverbed in appliances mode, but also network function virtualization based on Viptela technology, and features like zero-touch provisioning.

"At Orange Business, we keep deploying our strategy towards the promise of intent-based networking, which will automatically orchestrate networks based on predicted user demand and then improve security, user satisfaction and business continuity. Thanks to a best-of-breed range of SD-WAN technological bricks and an improved SD-WAN Customer Maturity Model, the SD-WAN by Orange portfolio of services makes our customers ready to meet their ever increasing cloud, bandwidth, Internet and routing optimization demands effectively and securely, while improving application performance irrespective of whether it is delivered from the cloud or the enterprise data center,"

Pierre-Louis Biaggi, vice president, Connectivity Business Unit at Orange Business.

We are confident that Gartner has acknowledged the strength of our Orange international network, where we have the broadest network coverage in terms of countries connected. We’re a recognized leader in the connectivity field, where we continue to invest to become a major player in the Orchestration world, including SDN, universal CPE, VNFs and SD-WAN.
“It is an honor to be recognized by Gartner for 18 years running. We have built a pedigree of network services that has remained current to enterprise needs through the years. Clients can depend on us to see them through to the next horizon of Intent-Based Networking.”

Pierre-Louis Biaggi, vice president, Connectivity Business Unit at Orange Business.

Pierre-Louis added, “It is an honor to be recognized by Gartner for 18 years running. We have built a pedigree of network services that has remained current to enterprise needs through the years. Clients can depend on us to see them through to the next horizon of Intent-Based Networking.”

* Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Network Services, Global, Danellie Young, Katja Ruud, Bjarne Munch, Takeshi Ikeda, Neil Rickard, 27 February 2018

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Franck Morales
Franck Morales

Franck is Vice President, Evolution Platform, a new strategic program focused on building the future orchestrated cloud-native infrastructure for our customers to ensure the delivery of real business outcomes. Outside his professional life, Franck enjoys cultural activities such as opera, especially Italian ones, and loves the theater. Sports also figure in his free time, especially cycling, running and skiing.