{"id":18545,"date":"2021-02-05T20:42:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T20:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zpesystems.com\/?p=18545"},"modified":"2022-11-11T18:28:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T18:28:13","slug":"virtual-customer-premises-equipment-with-palo-alto-networks-and-nodegrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zpesystems.com\/virtual-customer-premises-equipment-with-palo-alto-networks-and-nodegrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Customer Premises Equipment with Palo Alto Networks and Nodegrid"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Virtual Customer Premises Equipment<\/h3>\n

Virtual Customer Premises Equipment, or vCPE, is the epitome of network function virtualization<\/a>. Enterprises are implementing this form of customer premises equipment because it brings many benefits, such as faster deployments, optimized resource allocation, and unlimited flexibility. Service providers are especially keen to using vCPE to simplify service delivery and dramatically improve customer experiences.<\/p>\n

Regardless of what industry you\u2019re in, you can use this virtualization approach to streamline your enterprise networking.<\/p>\n

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What is Virtual Customer Premises Equipment?<\/h3>\n

Virtual customer premises equipment makes use of virtualization to deliver network services. This approach essentially uses a virtual environment that consists of software-based functions. These functions can include routing, security\/firewalls, VPNs, and much more.[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n

How is Virtual Customer Premises Equipment different?<\/h3>\n

Networking typically involves deploying stacks of purpose-built devices at each location. These appliances must be configured, provisioned, and maintained by specialized staff, who are usually required to be on site to perform these tasks. This can become expensive \u2014 not just to purchase devices (and perpetually replace them every few years), but also to provide support and maintenance. And because branch offices usually have limited physical space, large stacks of equipment can be obtrusive and take up significant real estate.<\/p>\n

vCPE vaporizes these large stacks, and instead puts the different network functions into a cloud-based model. These functions are hosted at a separate site or data center. Instead of using many dedicated appliances, branch locations need only one or two devices to run software that can deliver these functions to the site.[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]<\/p>\n

Why use Virtual Customer Premises Equipment?<\/h3>\n

Virtual customer premises equipment helps you gain more business agility. If you look at it from a hardware consolidation standpoint alone, it\u2019s plain to see how much more easily you can deploy and manage your distributed networks.<\/p>\n

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