Turn your connectivity business into a platform business.
Network-as-a-Service moves you from manual sales and delivery to a platform your customers buy and manage themselves. You launch new products in minutes, reach customers who buy the way they buy cloud, and grow the margin on infrastructure you already own.
We can advise on the model, help build the platform, or run it if you want us to.
A major African interconnection platform. We onboarded their existing Network-as-a-Service platform, stabilised and rebuilt it end-to-end, implemented new workflow orchestration and network automation, improved the data model, and delivered its first customer API for partner integration.
Your customers expect to buy your network the way they buy cloud.
Buyers want to order connectivity in minutes, through a portal or an API, and scale it without a sales cycle. Most operators still quote by hand and provision over weeks. The gap between how customers want to buy and how operators still sell is where the growth is leaking away.
The operators who productise first take the recurring revenue, and the customer relationship, before the rest catch up. This is a window, not a permanent state. The question a board is really asking is not whether the network can do this, it is whether you move while it still sets you apart.
Three ways a NaaS platform grows the business.
Network-as-a-Service is how you grow. Not one way, three.
Where the growth comes from
A NaaS platform turns the same network into a catalogue you keep adding to. Start with connectivity, then launch security and even NFV, each a product customers buy in minutes and each a new recurring line on infrastructure you have already paid for and built. The catalogue grows as fast as you can define a product, not as slowly as you can staff a project. This is what it means to stop running a network and start running a platform.
A platform changes how customers reach you. They discover your products in a marketplace, buy them in minutes, and provision without a conversation, the way they already buy cloud. Reach widens further when your platform federates with others, so customers on another operator’s platform can buy across to yours. You are not selling harder; you are letting demand that was always there find a way in.
A platform breaks that. The work goes in once, into the product and the automation that provisions, assures and bills it. After that, the next customer costs you almost nothing to serve, so the gap between what you earn and what it costs to earn it widens as you grow. Revenue scales like a network. Cost scales like software. The margin is the difference, and it is yours to keep.
Your platform is not an island.
NaaS platforms interconnect. Once you run your own, it can integrate with another operator’s platform over API, so your customers reach destinations you do not own, and their customers reach yours. This is how the market already works: Equinix Fabric and Colt’s On Demand platform interconnect over standard MEF APIs, letting customers on each provision across both in real time. Built on the same standards, your platform is a node in that ecosystem rather than a walled garden, and you own your piece of the reach instead of reselling someone else’s.
A productised network, sold the way the cloud is.
Access ports, interconnection and cloud connectivity sold through a portal and an API, with automated OSS and BSS handling provisioning, assurance and billing underneath. One platform your customers self-serve, and your team can operate.
Composed from product blocks we deliver independently.
A platform this size is not a single leap of faith. It is composed from blocks we design, build and run on their own, for operators in production today. Build the whole platform from the ground up, or add only the blocks you are missing. Either way, every part is a capability we already deliver, not a promise we are making for the first time.
Automated OSS / BSS
The automation that provisions, assures and bills connectivity sold on demand.
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Network Infrastructure
The network the platform sells on, built to be automated and provisioned against, not just to carry traffic.
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Cloud Platforms
The compute foundation the platform itself runs on.
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Portals, APIs & Marketplaces
The portal your customers order through, and the API they integrate against.
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Custom
Anything specific to your network that the standard blocks do not cover.
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Engineering that ships.
Go-to-market that earns.
Management that scales.
A platform this size stalls for predictable reasons: the internal teams who would build it rarely have spare capacity at the same time or agree on direction and priority, and the third parties brought in to do it often lack the deep domain knowledge to get it live. Our team has been behind some of the largest NaaS platforms in the market, such as Console Connect and Digital Realty, so we have seen these obstacles before and know how to overcome them quickly.
You hand the outcome to a single team that advises the model, builds the platform, sets up the go-to-market so it sells, and runs it if you want us to. You own the asset, and we stand behind the result. Meet the team
You work with a delivery lead who runs the build day to day, and an executive partner who engages with your leadership. We bring conviction earned from doing this before, and when we think a decision is wrong, we will say so, and why. The call is always yours. That is the difference between a supplier who waits for instructions and a team that drives the outcome.
The contract is with us to deliver, so we bring the right specialists when the work needs them, including skills that are scarce and expensive to keep on staff, managed by us rather than carried by you. You grow the revenue without building the team to grow it.
Built for you, or the right platform integrated. The choice is yours, not ours.
The fastest path is not always a bespoke build, and not always an existing platform. Because we both build from the ground up and integrate proven platforms, our recommendation is not tied to selling you either one. The right answer depends on what matters most to you: time to market, budget, and how much you want to own outright.
Build bespoke when owning the IP is worth the time it takes to develop. Integrate an existing platform when speed or cost matters more. We lay out the options that fit and deliver whichever you choose, and either way, you own the asset and the customer relationship.
Outcomes, not activity.
Provisioning in minutes, where it used to take weeks.
A market you could not economically reach before, opened.
Margin that widens as you grow, instead of cost that rises with it.
New products launched in minutes, not delivered as projects over weeks.
Your network extended automatically, through platform-to-platform integration.
A platform your team owns and can run, with the knowledge to sell it.
Advise, build and run. Take all three, or only what you need.
All three engagement models are delivered through the PTX Innovation Lifecycle, our method for taking a platform from idea to revenue.
We advise. You build.
The strategy, the product and the commercial case, so your team builds the right thing.
We build and deliver.
The platform, built to production, integrated and ready for your customers.
We run it.
Operated in production to an agreed service level, for as long as you want us there.
You own the IP we build together. Run is offered, not required: we operate the platform for you, or hand it to your own team. Your leverage grows as you own and extend the asset, instead of compounding inside a platform you rent. Advise, build and run is a choice, not a dependency.
Grow the business, not just the network.
Tell us where the growth is. We will map your path to a Network-as-a-Service platform, and what it takes to build and launch it, together.
