If “Empowering Business” was one thing businesses took away from Orange OpenTech 2025, they certainly felt it.
Orange Business is now rapidly syncing its innovation efforts on network-as-a-service (NaaS), AI, quantum, digital twins, and other areas with the delivery of value for customers.
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Evolution Platform
At the forefront was Evolution Platform, Orange’s NaaS platform that launched commercially earlier in 2025 and now boasts more than 300 customers. Evolution Platform continues to attract strategic ecosystem partners, allowing customers the highest degrees of flexibility and/or sovereignty in a rapid and scalable manner, with full observability over costs and carbon impact.
As part of its ongoing innovation on Evolution Platform, Orange announced it intends to roll out a new VPN-as-a-service solution, which will go live this week and full commercial availability slated for Q1 2026. VPNaaS can connect SD-WAN gateways provisioned by third-party operators to Orange’s On Demand Cloud Connect service, all sourced from different points of presence via a virtual private network, spun up at the touch of a button and going live within seconds.
Live Intelligence
On Orange’s Gen-cum-Agentic AI platform, Live Intelligence, the company recently announced it has been made available to governments and business organisations in the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) region, and it is expected to be made available elsewhere as well.
Designed to deliver managed GenAI and agentic AI experiences to employees, Orange announced a new dashboard and interface for Live Intelligence will be launched for Orange employees next year. Live Intelligence now also offers full observability on the carbon impact expected from all AI searches, with users able to change AI models.
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From Orange’s R&D, X-WAN was demoed. This is a potential product area touted as the next step in SD-WAN. The main benefits in X-WAN is that it offers a drastic simplification at the customer edge, AI traffic steering, and a multi-site, multi-cloud service tied up with Evolution Platform as the hub.
Also showcased to support this was a new hardware CPE (customer premise equipment) device – no larger than a home WiFi router – embedded with a GPU chip. This is expected to enable businesses of all sizes to deploy X-WAN and GPUaaS with small language model training.
Overall, the company’s continuous investment in the network and AI is starting to bear fruit and is attracting eyeballs the world over. The industry will be keen to see how Orange Business manages itself as a new digital telco fit for the AI era.
