Cisco System Inc. has rebranded Cisco Virtual Managed Services as Managed Services Accelerator, or MSX. The rebrand is to better reflect the product’s function and value: helping service providers develop and deliver multiple cloud-managed services supporting multi-tenancy and multi-vendor, according to R. Wayne Ogozaly, cloud data center architect at Cisco Systems Inc.

“We’re able to go from service creation to actual service deployment in literally weeks,” said Ogozaly (pictured).

Basically, MSX provides a service provider a platform for multi-tenancy, and those services span both physical devices and virtual network functions, Ogozaly explained. Plus, the single cloud platform has the ability to configure and deploy multiple services toward a single customer, he added.

Ogozaly spoke with Stu Miniman (@stu), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the Cisco Live event in Orlando, Florida. They discussed Cisco’s MSX platform, as well as the company’s software-defined wide-area network service. (* Disclosure below.)

Cloud-native platform

“Cisco Software-Defined Wide Area Network, or SD-WAN, has been very popular in that it allows customers/enterprises to have a choice of Multiprotocol Label Switching, internet, or even 4G backbone networks that they can run the traffic of their choice across,” Ogozaly explained. “So they can, from the cloud, manage many different devices with a single click of a button.”

Architecturally, it’s a cloud-native platform built similarly to Google’s architecture — built with Docker containers, Kubernetes and a microservice framework. “There’s a very low cost of entry that you’re able to tap into this powerful cloud management platform and offer any sort of service that you want for both large service providers as well as small service providers,” Ogozaly said.

The bottom line is that MSX is a service creation platform that allows users to centrally manage all functions from one place. It gives providers the chance to move seamlessly from home branches to cloud mobile networks, according to Ogozaly.

“We expect service providers to bring their service to the table, we can accommodate it, monetize it, bring it to market very rapidly,” Ogozaly concluded.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Cisco Live event. (* Disclosure: Cisco Systems Inc. sponsored this segment of theCUBE. Neither Cisco nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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