Sea Street Technologies was founded in 2012 by Cisco's former CTO with the goal of automating network services for operators. Now, the company is stepping more fully into the space with the launch of a new product initially aimed at the market for SD-WAN and secure access service edge (SASE) services. CEO Harley Stowell said his efforts today stem from the problems he saw among Cisco's service provider customers. "What I saw was our carrier customers were spending literally hundreds of millions of dollars on cloud computing, integrated infrastructure, which had a software stack on board, which was yesterday's architecture," he told Light Reading. "And that architecture was constrained and siloed to fulfillment. It couldn't manage and automate the lifecycle of dynamic services, which is a fundamental requirement of a cloud platform, which is globally distributed now."