Market Adoption of SDN driven

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE

 

Brocade and NEC Corporation of America (NEC) have expanded collaboration to bring to market combined solutions around Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and OpenFlow switching, including network virtualization.

Brocade and NEC will jointly market solutions for network virtualization, large-scale data center infrastructure management, traffic engineering and Wide Area Network (WAN) flow management, with an open standards-based approach. Brocade and NEC will market these high-value solutions built around Brocade's OpenFlow-enabled products and NEC's award-winning Programmable Flow Controller. As part of the collaboration, Brocade and NEC are committing to ongoing certification, interoperability and solution validation testing. Brocade and NEC are collaborating on technology and implementation alignment, including OpenFlow standards, tunnel technology and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to help ensure ongoing innovation and seamless deployment by joint customers.

Mitsuhiro Murooka, Vice-President, NEC Enterprise Technologies IT, said, "The combined NEC and Brocade SDN solutions will give customers the ability to design, deploy, monitor and manage secure, multi-tenant networks from a single point of control. Brocade and NEC customers will be able to achieve greater service agility, granular traffic control and significant productivity gains by adopting software-defined network architecture."

Ken Cheng, Vice-President & General Manager, Service Provider Business, Brocade, said, "SDN enables network operators to rapidly deploy innovative services and access powerful analytics through programmatic control, unlocking the intelligence of their data center and wide area networks. Our collaboration with NEC ensures we deliver high-value solutions that can be seamlessly deployed in our customers' networks to realize the benefit of SDN."

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