Unitas Global unveils purpose built SDN Network for cloud and edge

22 February 2021 | Natalie Bannerman

Unitas Global confirms the availability of Unitas Reach, a global software-defined network (SDN) offering automated edge access to any cloud location. 

Hailed as an industry first, Unitas Reach is a purpose-built network connecting cloud providers, carrier-neutral data centres, SaaS applications, and edge access networks to form a multi-service global interconnection fabric.

"Organisations today need flexible, proven, and secure infrastructure to run their enterprise applications and multi-cloud solutions," said Patrick Shutt, CEO of Unitas Global.

"With Unitas Reach, our clients achieve cost-optimised network connectivity with the agility needed to scale quickly and support the growing demands of applications on network architectures, performance, and costs."

In addition, Unitas Reach is built to provide a range of connectivity to suit various cloud services with simple integration to traditional enterprise networks. Also, with a presence on six continents, Unitas Reach provides redundant and diverse Internet, IP, Ethernet, and Wave access to distributed applications across cloud, hybrid-cloud, multi-cloud and private cloud environments.

"We designed Unitas Reach in response to the dynamic networking requirements that today's businesses require and have yet to experience," added Grant Kirkwood, founder and CTO of Unitas Global.

"Providers and enterprises can easily add connectivity to dynamically support their ever-changing network strategies and customise capabilities to their unique set of service delivery, operations, access and configuration requirements.”

Additionally, the solution delivers interconnections to hundreds of other networks and fibre access providers, extending the network access to the edge, this includes over 900 carrier neutral data centres and 30 million enterprise locations in over 85 countries. It also features automation, monitoring, and orchestration to the edge delivering flexibility in service creation and scaling capacity as enterprise networking on-demand.

Unitas Reach also offers:  Cloud on-ramps for multi-cloud delivery, high-performance managed Internet, direct connectivity to and between multi-cloud platforms, as well as agile and scalable WAN solutions.