PacketFabric and Unitas Global have agreed to merge to become a larger Network as a Service (NaaS) platform.
PacketFabric helps businesses build new secure, private network fabrics to connect their core sites, cloud assets and manage shifts in data gravity with their unique fabric integrated storage. PacketFabric Converge orchestrates on-demand connectivity across colocation facilities, cloud providers, and private network interconnection across the globe.
Unitas Global offers intelligent automation for business internet connectivity, providing end-to-end network design, pricing, ordering and visibility across more than one thousand first/middle/last mile networks, accessing more than 50 million fiber lit buildings.
The companies said their merger will create a company that is changing the business internet architecture to one that is finally software-defined and fully programmable, versus legacy systems that are rigid and struggle to meet the price, performance, and flexibility needs of today’s enterprise customers. The combined platform assets and automation capabilities of the two companies will deliver real-time, on-demand control to our customers from The Edge to Everywhere.
“We are the only company that helps businesses shift from being reactive to proactive when it comes to the constant change of digitized operations,” said PacketFabric CEO Dave Ward. “Our platforms enable a fundamental shift in the way to architect and operationalize a modern business. We enable a reimagination of simplified operations with real-time, on-demand automation, self-service, complete telemetry and flexible consumption, applied to every aspect of business connectivity. We do this by fulfilling the promise of software-defined-networking and AIOps via our cloud native platforms. Not one other NaaS offer enables Edge to Everywhere through their platform, we believe this makes us the one true NaaS.”
“The combination of Unitas Global’s automated design and pricing platform and its global access and Internet network covering over 50 million locations in 173 countries, creates a compelling offering to enable enterprise network transformation,” said Unitas Global CEO Patrick Shutt. “This merger extends the edge of network automation and flexibility out to the enterprise, creating an unmatched Edge to Everywhere offering for our customers and partners globally.”
“The combination of PacketFabric and Unitas Global’s platform and network assets is a powerful proof point of Digital Alpha’s commitment to investing in and developing transformative next generation networks that provide an industry leading networking-as-a-service solution in the currently fragmented marketplace. This is a significant investment in the future of the internet and a very significant company to revolutionize enterprise digital infrastructure” states Rick Shrotri Managing Partner of Digital Alpha Advisors.
