Pacnet introduces PEN to build Cloud-ready Networks

Pacnet has announced availability of its Pacnet Enabled Network (PEN) in data centers throughout Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, and now the United States in response to strong market demand. Enabling Enterprise and Carrier customers to rapidly and cost-effectively create the foundation of a virtual, integrated data center, PEN is a fully-automated software-defined network (SDN) providing a flexible and scalable service platform that is agile and lowers total cost of network operations.
 
Through the PEN web-based GUI or Pacnet Connect, customers can provision network services between two locations in minutes without going through the traditional, long lead, manual provisioning process. PEN also enables customers to build network interconnects with bandwidth and performance characteristics tailored to their unique business requirements.
 
PEN offers customers access to Pacnet’s extensive network of data centers and major carriers, creating a virtualized, cross-connected Asia-Pacific ecosystem.
 
“The launch of PEN enables customers to build the high-performance and cloud-ready networks needed to overcome networking challenges prompted by the growth of cloud computing. With PEN, Pacnet brings cloud provisioning to the network, empowering on-demand, scalable bandwidth provisioning based on customers’ unique performance and QoS requirements,” said Jim Fagan, President of Managed Services, Pacnet.
 
Pacnet will continue to expand PEN’s availability on a global scale throughout the rest of the year, with the next geographic rollout planned in Korea and Taiwan.