SYDNEY, Australia, August 30, 2024 – Open Union and Edgecore Networks, the leader in open networking, today announced a partnership to bring the Edgecore portfolio of innovative communications solutions to Small Businesses through to Enterprises in Australia.

Open Union, partnering with Edgecore, offers a new set of communications solutions to businesses and enterprises, which natively uses the global model of open networking. It benefits clients by providing dramatically improved communications performance, flexibility and lower opex and capex.
Edgecore lowers the entry barrier to acquire open networking technologies including cutting-edge hardware designs for Customer Premise Equipment routers, data center switches and open software, such as SONiC.

This new model allows small businesses to afford enterprise-grade hardware and software that in the past has only been affordable by large enterprises, that is capable of managing the exponential amounts of data being generated as AI becomes mainstream. In addition, it allows enterprises to save considerably on network opex and capex, reducing the total cost of ownership / TCO.

Open networking has become the standard in Europe and the USA, driven by hyper-scalers taking advantage of new hardware and software available.

Traditional telecommunications provider networks and the services they offer to their customers are all designed in a similar way using legacy equipment and are stuck in an expensive hardware refresh cycle.
The benefits of open networking are well documented, but in summary:

From – Legacy	To – Open Networking
Expensive integrated hardware and software	Low-cost, separate, high performance hardware and flexible software, making upgrades and network expansion affordable
Slow to update	Simple to upgrade and automate
Scarce computing resources	Designed for edge routing
Unable to adopt new technologies until equipment vendors update	Able to innovate quickly to add AI, 5G etc
Heightened security risks	Enhanced security capabilities including; • Quick software updates and patches • Choose best-of-breed security tools • Scalable security independent of hardware • More precise security controls, access rules, threat detention • Isolation and separation of controls and data to contain security breaches • Centralised visibility and management simplifying monitoring and incident response

About Edgecore Networks

Edgecore Networks Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Accton Technology Corporation, the leading networking ODM. Edgecore Networks delivers wired and wireless networking products and solutions through channel partners and system integrators worldwide for data center, service provider, enterprise, and SMB customers. Edgecore Networks is the leader in open networking, providing a full line of open 1G-800G Ethernet switches, core routers, cell site gateways, virtual PON OLTs, optical packet transponders, and Wi-Fi access points. Edgecore offers a choice of commercial and open-source NOS and network application solutions.

For more information, visit www.edge-core.com

About Open Union

The mission of Open Union is to bring the best of global connectivity software, hardware and services to Small Business through to Enterprise clients, to optimize network performance, affordability and flexibility in a data-rich world.

For more information, visit www.OpenUnion.Tech