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CENX Closes $12.5 Million Investment - Business Growth Fueled by SDN and NFV Market
OTTAWA, Aug. 11, 2015 /PRNewswire/ - CENX, a global leader of Lifecycle Service Orchestration solutions for software-defined and virtualized networks, today announced that it has finalized new equity investment totaling $12.5 million USD. New investors BDC Capital, Mistral Venture Partners, and VMware joined the Series D financing round, in which all current investors participated: Highland Capital Partners, Mesirow Financial Private Equity Inc., Verizon Ventures, a subsidiary of Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, NASDAQ:VZ), Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC), DCM Ventures, and Cross Creek Advisors. This investment will help accelerate CENX's global market and portfolio expansion in addressing emerging requirements for Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) for service providers that are evolving to Software-defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) technologies. CENX's Cortx Service Orchestrator is an essential enabler of SDN and NFV deployments, leveraging the power of network big data analytics for dynamic provisioning, visualization and assurance of data services across heterogeneous physical and virtualized networks. Ever-growing demand for enterprise and consumer Cloud-based applications is driving service providers to change the way they operate their networks, and to turn to software systems that support agile service delivery and real-time service assurance. The LSO market is forecasted to grow at a CAGR of nearly 60%, reaching $2.7 billion by 2019, according to The Rayno Report, fueled by carrier SDN and NFV markets that are increasing 50-80% annually. "We welcome the market, business and partnership perspectives that VMware, BDC Capital, and Mistral bring to CENX," said Ed Ogonek, President and CEO of CENX. "We are seeing tremendous demand worldwide for our Cortx solution, delivering tangible value in today's networks and empowering the evolution to virtualized networks and services with NFV and SDN. With the support and confidence of our growing investor group, we continue to expand our world-class team to meet these global opportunities." "CENX is at the forefront of the fast-rising LSO market with its Cortx Service Orchestrator, and we are delighted to support its continued global business growth," said Ron Warburton, Managing Partner, IT Venture Fund, BDC Capital. "This is a great opportunity to bring Canadian innovation to mobile, wireline, and cloud service providers worldwide." "CENX shares VMware's vision to deliver innovative solutions for virtualization and cloud computing," said David Wright, Vice President, Operations, Telco NFV Group, VMware. "With more and more carriers moving to NFV, there is a real need for CENX's high-scale, real-time LSO solutions to ensure high service quality end-to-end across both physical and virtual network infrastructure. We look forward to participating in this industry transformation." "The Board is very pleased with CENX's business progress and, on behalf of all the investors, we're excited to be part of its next stage of growth," said Sean Dalton, Partner with Highland Capital Partners, and Chairman of the CENX Board. "CENX has been building its global footprint and organizational competencies aggressively year-over-year, driven by strong demand for its Cortx solutions. We see that trajectory continuing as operators transition to next-generation data networks." About CENX About BDC Capital About Mistral Venture Partners Links and search terms CENX, Cortx Service Orchestrator, Lifecycle Service Orchestration, LSO, Cloud, data center, network functions virtualization, NFV, software-defined networking, SDN, IP, Ethernet, big data analytics, OSS Follow CENX
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