Headquartered in Salt Lake but with offices also in Idaho, EntryPoint was formed around the concept of separating network infrastructure from services, make it possible to increase the number of services through the use of network virtualization. With the goal of creating real separation between the broadband infrastructure (or transport) and the services running over that infrastructure, the effort was to provide an open and dynamic platform for service creation and access, and creating a security mechanism to authorize and authenticate users in this new open, cloud-like environment. This work merged Open Access, SDN, NFV, Network Automation, and Network Virtualization and the result included two systems referred to as FlowOps and SecureOps. By 2014 EntryPoint had begun growing its development team to take the prototypes developed at the University of Utah and convert them to commercial grade integrated software systems. Working on Edge Intelligence for Virtualization and Security in Open Networks, the final piece necessary to bring cloud capabilities to the subscriber edge was a hardened Virtual Broadband Gateway for the subscriber premise. In September 2015 EntryPoint received its first shipment of hardened Virtual Broadband Gateways and began integrating FlowOps and SecureOps as a complete system called the EntryPoint OpenEdge Suite -- providing a dynamic cloud environment for edge network service delivery.
