Turnium Technology Group today announced a collaboration with IBM to deploy its cloud-native SD-WAN platform on the IBM Cloud for Telecommunications service.

The Vancouver, British Columbia-based SD-WAN vendor claims the collaboration will help service providers and enterprises deploy, manage, and access edge compute applications over IBM’s private backbone network.

Turnium isn’t a new player in the SD-WAN space having launched its initial white-label offering in collaboration with its sister company Multapplied in 2016. The company’s cloud-native, container-based SD-WAN platform runs on bare metal, virtual machines, or containerized environments like OpenShift, which coincidentally was acquired by IBM with the purchase of RedHat in 2018.

The platform also supports a wide variety of WAN underlay technologies like broadband, fixed wireless, 4G LTE, 5G, and fiber links.

Turnium is the latest SD-WAN vendor to announce integrations with a public cloud provider. This spring, SD-WAN vendors Cisco, Fortinet, and Versa independently announced integrations with Google Cloud, which allow their SD-WAN customers to use the cloud provider’s private backbone for middle-mile connectivity.

However, Turnium’s integration with IBM Cloud isn’t limited to transport, and it also addresses the deployment of and access to workloads in hybrid-cloud environments, including those running in private data centers or at the edge.

Announced in November 2020, IBM Cloud for Telecommunications organizes and repackages multiple services — including Red Hat OpenShift, IBM Cloud, IBM Edge Application Manager, and IBM Telco Network Cloud Manager — specifically for use by mobile carriers and network operators.

“Onboarding TTGI’s Turnium SD-WAN solution enables us to help customers interconnect their hybrid cloud deployments with their organizational WAN to help extend telco clouds worldwide,” said Evaristus Mainsah, GM of IBM’s hybrid cloud and edge ecosystem, in a statement.