Telecom Infra Project and Tanaza Collaborate to Extend Tanaza Platform Compatibility to TIP OpenWiFi™ Access Points.
Today, Tanaza proudly announces the general availability of the Tanaza platform supporting all OpenWiFi™ compliant access points (in addition to the others already supported thanks to the Linux-based TanazaOS). This collaboration with Telecom Infra Project (TIP) marks a significant milestone in the journey towards a disaggregated networking market, pushing the boundaries of innovation and reducing the effects of lock-in strategies applied by incumbents.
The Tanaza platform, a pioneer in hardware/software disaggregation since 2011, has supported various off-the-shelf devices from third-party manufacturers such as Ubiquiti and MikroTik. Now, Tanaza extends its compatibility to ALL OpenWiFi™ compliant devices, giving out-of-the-box interoperability with OpenWiFi™ hardware providers included in the TIP community.
Sebastiano Bertani, CEO of Tanaza, expressed the importance of this achievement, stating, “Our technology has reached widespread global adoption, featuring over 60,000 active access points. It has been utilized by some Tier-1 telco providers, leveraging the synergy of SDN networking and hardware flexibility to empower their B2B managed Wi-Fi offering. Bringing to production OpenWiFi™ compliant hardware has been a natural step for us. It not only enhances Wi-Fi hardware flexibility, but also envisions extending this capability to switches, for a complete “OpenLAN” solution. But most of all, it consolidates a solid foundation to shape the innovation of the next decade, on top of a common layer. For instance, our ChatGPT AI integration (TanazaGPT) enables the control of any networking device connected to our platform, and the same will be for any other App and service built on top, ranging from hyperconvergence to cybersecurity”.
Jack Raynor, TIP OpenLAN™ and OpenWiFi™Co-chair, said, “We are proud of this collaboration with Tanaza. This achievement aligns with our commitment to fostering an open and collaborative ecosystem in the telecommunications industry, transitioning the market from vertically integrated to horizontally structured”.
About TIP / OpenWiFi™
Telecom Infra Project (TIP) OpenLAN Project Group is a collaborative community that aims to accelerate the pace of innovation in the telecom industry. OpenWiFi™, an initiative within TIP’s OpenLAN Project Group, focuses on advancing open and disaggregated Wi-Fi solutions.
About Tanaza
Tanaza is a leading provider of cloud-based networking platforms to enable B2B managed Wi-Fi and NaaS. Since its inception, it has adopted a cloud-only approach and hardware/software disaggregation as its founding pillars. An early member of TIP OpenWiFi™, Tanaza provided an initial Proof of Concept (PoC) of OpenWiFi™ at MWC2020. Tanaza technology has been used in projects with Meta, Fortinet, Sercomm, Etisalat, and NEC, among others.
Milan, Italy – Tanaza, a leading provider of cloud-based wireless management software, and Edgecore Networks, a leading provider of traditional and open network solutions for enterprises, data centers, and telecommunication service providers, are excited to announce a strategic partnership to provide MSPs and IT professionals with powerful, integrated solutions for wireless networking.
Under this partnership, Tanaza will support Edgecore hardware with its software and Edgecore will make its products available through its distribution partners as Tanaza Powered. This means that they will connect to the Tanaza cloud platform out-of-the-box.
Adopting Tanaza Powered Edgecore APs offers several advantages for MSPs and IT professionals, including:
In addition to this partnership, Edgecore distributor STORDIS (operating from Germany and serving all EMEA), will provide Edgecore EAP102-T Wi-Fi6 devices to selected MSPs. This will allow MSPs to experience firsthand the benefits of the hardware/software combination enabled by this partnership.
“We are thrilled to partner with Edgecore to provide MSPs and IT professionals with powerful, integrated solutions for wireless networking,” said Sebastiano Bertani, CEO of Tanaza. “By combining Edgecore’s enterprise-grade equipment with our cloud-based software and marketplace, we deliver unprecedented levels of robustness and flexibility together”.
“Edgecore has delivered Wi-Fi solutions around the world in different markets such as enterprises, campuses, hospitality, SMB, etc. Edgecore now is actively contributing to the OpenWiFi solution and has been working with many MSPs/ISPs in these two years,” said Tengtai Hsu, Vice President of Edgecore Networks. “We are excited to partner with Tanaza and bring their powerful cloud-based software to our customers. By making our products able to connect to the Tanaza cloud platform out-of-the-box, we are able to deliver a compelling hardware/software solution that is extremely easy-to-use and that provides the flexibility to be extended virtually with no limits”.
“We have been waiting for disaggregation in the wireless space to arrive for a long time and to be able to support two strong partners like Edgecore Networks – who are the leaders in Open Networking, and Tanaza – with their Enterprise Cloud platform, is really exciting for us! Open networking is in our DNA and now our line-up is further expanded with the addition of these OpenWIFI value options.” said Lukasz Lukowski, CSMO of STORDIS.
For more information about this partnership and the products available, please contact Tanaza or Edgecore.
About Tanaza
Tanaza is a leading provider of cloud-based wireless management software. Its platform enables MSPs and IT professionals to easily manage and monitor their wireless networks with high levels of operational efficiency and flexibility. Tanaza is a TIP OpenWIFI partner.
The company is based in Italy with global partners that include Comfast, Fortinet, Intelbras, and Linksys.
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-400G Ethernet OCP Accepted™ switches, core routers, cell site gateways, virtual PON OLTs, optical packet transponders, and Wi-Fi access points that offer choice of commercial and open source NOS and SDN software.
For more information, visit wifi.edge-core.com or contact sales@edge-core.com.
About STORDIS
STORDIS is a global leader in building the next generation of Open Disaggregated, Datacenter, Telco, Cloud and Campus Networks. Their company’s mission is to enable customers to benefit from the latest technologies by helping them design their new networks using STORDIS’ expertise, training and support to ensure they succeed.
For more information, visit stordis.com, stordirect.com or route2open.com
Milan, Italy – Tanaza, the leading provider of hardware-agnostic cloud-based Wi-Fi management software, is excited to announce the launch of its new freemium model and marketplace concept. This allows Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to deploy fully cloud-managed Wi-Fi with a wide range of hardware options, from high-performing to cost-effective, easily adding optional software features and third-party applications.
Milan, Italy – January 25, 2023 -Starting today, the Tanaza platform is free for up to three Wi-Fi access points with its Basic plan. This way, MSPs can get familiar with the benefits of software-hardware disaggregation on a small scale and play with no time limit, until they are ready to scale up. At that point, the Pro plan allows them to manage an unlimited number of APs, keeping all customer networks in one place, independently from the hardware used in each deployment.
“There is no limit to the size of Wi-Fi networks you can manage. Some SMEs already use Tanaza to manage their retail locations from one single dashboard. Also, Tier-1/2 ISPs are leveraging Tanaza’s technology to enable their managed B2B Wi-Fi offering, with tens of thousands of APs already deployed while using Tanaza’s APIs to virtualize hardware”, says Massimo Dragoni, Head of Solutions.
“We continue to support a large number of indoor and outdoor Wi-Fi APs, to give MSPs all the options they need, from Ubiquiti to MikroTik to Edgecore. Users can also expand Wi-Fi capabilities with applications and features from our marketplace, and this adds a number of ways for MSPs to create the Wi-Fi services that are best for them. In the future, we expect to offer even more features and services on the marketplace – like AI-based troubleshooting and optimization, Wi-Fi sensing, and tools aimed at supporting Wi-Fi planning and design” said Tanaza CEO, Sebastiano Bertani.
The new freemium model and marketplace are already available and interested parties can sign up on www.tanaza.com.
About Tanaza
Tanaza provides a cloud platform (SaaS) to empower Managed Solutions Providers (MSPs) that offer managed B2B Wi-Fi services. It delivers a centralized dashboard to manage all customers’ networks from one single place, independently of the devices used. It provides flexibility to leverage a broad range of supported 3rd party hardware options. The solution is ideal for companies providing Wi-Fi network services to SMB and SME businesses, not only for the flexibility of the hardware choice but also for the flexibility in relation to software features, as it’s possible to granularly enable add-ons and 3rd party integrations that can meet the requirements of a wide variety of deployment types.
The company is based in Italy with global partners that include Comfast, Edgecore, Fortinet, Intelbras, and Linksys. Visit www.tanaza.com
Milan, Italy – November 14, 2022 – Tanaza, the leading cloud management platform for SMB Wi-Fi access points, and Fing, a Lansweeper company, the leader in device recognition technology, have partnered on a new add-on for the Tanaza platform users. MSPs gain a powerful tool to troubleshoot remote networks with an add-on that enriches the Tanaza Wi-Fi client’s data by integrating the Fing device recognition technology and intelligent outage detection system.
Network administrators of all types can now use the Fing Add-on to easily identify connected devices and troubleshoot network connectivity issues from a single platform.
The Fing Add-on will be available in two plans: Basic and Pro.
The free Basic version leverages the Fing device recognition technology to enrich Tanaza clients’ connection traffic data and provide useful information to troubleshoot Wi-Fi networks from remote. Available from Nov 14th, 2022.
The paid Pro version, available in early 2023, pushes network troubleshooting over the boundaries introducing the intelligent Fing Outage detection system to automatically detect and report outages at the ISP or carrier/power level.
Sebastiano Bertani, CEO of Tanaza, stated “The Fing add-on brings to Tanaza the client identification capabilities that have been appreciated by Fing users, i.e., a community that counts more than 100 million downloads of the Fing App. And the cooperation goes beyond just the Fing, as the potential synergy with the Lansweeper Embedded Technologies is limitless, encompassing tools that include IT asset management to cybersecurity solutions”.
Patrizia Cozzoli, VP of Corporate Development at Lansweeper, stated that
“Tanaza and their operating system TanazaOS is unique in the market as it is completely hardware vendor agnostic. With this integration, the Fing identification capabilities with 1.3 billion uniquely identified devices, will run on any networking gear supported by TanazaOS, such as Ubiquiti, MikroTik, Intelbras and Edgecore”.
About Tanaza
Tanaza delivers an enterprise, cloud-managed Wi-Fi platform that is powerful, intuitive and flexible. Service providers choose this platform for stability, features and hardware flexibility. Networking vendors partner with Tanaza to deliver compelling ‘plug & play’ cloud management solutions. Software partners leverage the company’s APIs to integrate their applications across all supported models. The Tanaza eco-system creates synergies that make the management of network simple, cost-effective, and scalable.
The company is based in Italy with global customers that include Comfast, Edgecore, Fortinet, Intelbras, and Linksys. Visit www.tanaza.com.
About Fing, a Lansweeper company
Lansweeper, headquartered in Belgium, is an IT Asset Management platform helping businesses better understand, manage and protect their IT devices and network. Lansweeper helps customers minimize risks and optimize their IT assets by providing actionable insight into their IT infrastructure, offering trustworthy, valuable, and accurate insights about the state of users, devices, and software.
In 2020, Lansweeper acquired Fing, the network scanning and device recognition app. Lansweeper leverages the Fing capabilities to strengthen its core asset management value proposition for SMEs and Enterprises, while continuing to grow the Fing business at the same time.
Fing was founded in 2009 with the vision to help customers understand the complexity of their network and manage the growing number of connected devices. Today, Fing continues its mission to give customers visibility and control over their digital environment and connected technology. To learn more about Fing please visit www.fing.com.
To learn more about Lansweeper Embedded Technologies, visit embedtech.lansweeper.com.