• Global telecommunications alliance ngena grows to 17 members
• New partners: A1 Telekom Austria Group, KPN, and VEON
• Telekom extends international reach and expands business services
• At MWC - Feb. 26 - Panel Discussion "The State of SD-WAN"

The global telecommunications alliance ngena is growing to 17 members.

The global telecommunications alliance ngena (Next Generation Enterprise Network Alliance – www.ngena.net) is growing to 17 members. The new members are the A1 Telekom Austria Group, KPN, and VEON, which has operations in Russia and Eastern Europe. With these new additions, Deutsche Telekom continues to expand its global network offerings for businesses. ngena and Deutsche Telekom announced this in the run-up to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (February 26 – March 1).

Through the ngena alliance, Deutsche Telekom now covers company sites in more than 200 countries worldwide, including Germany, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Austria, Portugal, Spain, Poland, Hungary, Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the U.S., Canada, Hong Kong, and South Korea. More countries will follow.

ngena is a global alliance of leading telcos that combine their networks to form a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) and control it with cloud technologies. Deutsche Telekom is a founding member of the alliance.

Patrick Molck-Ude, responsible for network business for Deutsche Telekom’s corporate customers, says:

"Corporate customers need strong and secure global lines that they can manage flexibly. And they want to connect new company sites quickly. That's the new baseline for every international carrier, and with our software-defined network, we have our fingers on the pulse of our customers' needs."

Marcus Hacke, founder and Managing Director at ngena, says:

"Our global platform combines the advantages of ultramodern SD-WAN architecture with our alliance partners' local services. Based on Cisco's SD WAN portfolio, which already incorporates Viptela's leading technology completely, business customers get ultramodern software-defined wide area networks that are easier to operate, flexible to administer, scale seamlessly and are available more quickly."