Unitas Global Boasts Massive Software-Defined Network Milestone

Unitas Global just launched a software-defined network that it calls the first of its kind.

The Unitas Reach network caters to “ubiquitous multicloud access.” The company’s executives say no other provider has purpose-built its SDN to bring together cloud providers, data centers, SaaS applications and edge access networks.

Unitas Global’s Patrick Shutt

“Organizations today need flexible, proven and secure infrastructure to run their enterprise applications and multicloud solutions,” Unitas Global CEO Patrick Shutt said. “With Unitas Reach, our clients achieve cost-optimized network connectivity with the agility needed to scale quickly and support the growing demands of applications on network architectures, performance and costs.”

Unitas Reach stretches beyond 900 carrier-neutral data centers and 30 million enterprise locations, harnessing a multiservice global interconnection fabric. In addition, the software-defined network uses internet, Ethernet IP and other forms of connectivity for the distributed applications it hosts. The network also automates multicloud delivery.

Meeting Modern Trends

Unitas Global’s Grant Kirkwood

Unitas Founder and chief technology officer Grant Kirkwood touted SDN’s ability to flexibly and simply provision connectivity.

“We designed Unitas Reach in response to the dynamic networking requirements that today’s businesses require and have yet to experience,” Kirkwood said. “Providers and enterprises can easily add connectivity to dynamically support their ever changing network strategies, and customize capabilities to their unique set of service delivery, operations, access and configuration requirements.”

Unitas has made our list of 20 Colocation Providers You Should Know. It also has landed on the Inc. 5000 four times since its inception in 2011. According to Inc. 5000 data, the company grew 98% in revenue between 2018 and 2020.

The company touts managed internet, and direct multicloud connectivity and WAN solutions as part of its portfolio.