June 8, 2015
Macnica Networks Corp.

- Construction of Cloud Capable, Open WAN Environment!-

Macnica Networks Corp., which provides network devices and security solutions (headquarters: 1-5-5 Shin-Yokohama, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, Japan; President: Masahiro Miyabukuro; hereinafter "Macnica Networks") and Viptela, Inc., which provides Software Defined (SD)-Wide Area Network (WAN) technology (headquarters: San Jose, California; CEO: Amir Khan; hereinafter Viptela), announce that they have agreed to conclude a Distributorship Agreement.

Recently, the use of SDN (Software-Defined Networking) technology has made it possible to explicitly separate the control plane and the data plane, with hardware performing data transmission only and data control under centralized management and automation from an SDN controller. Viptela's SD-WAN solutions reduce network operating costs and provide business agility by allowing enterprises to combine multiple transport networks into a single, cloud adaptable, WAN environment.

The Viptela SEN (Secure Extensible Network) platform includes an SDN controller, called vSmart, a router called vEdge and a management platform called vManage. SEN provides centralized traffic, policy control, robust network security and application visualization. The overlay transport function makes it possible to securely construct a highly flexible WAN environment, independent of the connectivity being used. Viptela enables enterprises to implement transport-agnostic VPNs that can be used to deploy secure B2B networks over broadband connections that support voice, data and video services (service chaining).

Macnica Networks will use Viptela's SEN to deploy value-added WAN environments that provide:

Viptela　Company Overview

Viptela is transforming enterprise networking. The company uses Software-Defined Networking (SDN) technology to make Wide Area Networks (WAN) easier to manage, adaptable, secure and significantly cheaper to operate. Viptela was founded in 2012 by a team of executives from Cisco, Juniper Networks, Alcatel-Lucent and VMware who have developed market defining products and architected some of the world’s largest networks. Viptela is backed by Sequoia Capital and headquartered in San Jose, CA. For more information, visit: www.viptela.com or follow us on Twitter @Viptela.