ADVA (FSE: ADV) and NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) today announced that Etisalat UAE, the telecoms pillar of e& (formerly known as Etisalat Group), is offering on-demand virtual services to its corporate customers using ADVA’s suite of Ensemble NFV technologies with the solution system integration conducted by NEC in close collaboration with Etisalat UAE, who are onboarding various network functions on top of the platform. The new universal customer premises equipment (uCPE) offering gives enterprises across the Middle East quick and secure access to the industry’s widest range of multi-vendor virtual technologies. With the ability to harness leading virtual network functions (VNFs), including SD-WAN, routing, firewall, DDoS prevention, and IoT applications, Etisalat UAE’s business clients can try out services without risk and seize new revenue opportunities in an instant.