BROWSING: SDN
RAD introduces vAccess with VNF performance monitoring capabilities
RAD debuts vAccess
Israel-based company RAD rolled out a new addition to its vCPE toolbox, dubbed vAccess, which enables value-added NFV and SDN-based services to be launched over any access.
RAD describes itself as a market leader of NFV and SDN edge virtualization. vAccess is part...
Orange Poland building 5G brick by brick
Automation and 5G network slicing will create opportunities for operators and end users
Orange Poland, a subsidiary of French multinational telecom operator Orange, was the first of the service provider's national businesses to test open source network management and operations software, and is building the...
MEF releases service orchestration specifications for 3.0 framework
MEF announces two new specifications for MEF 3.0 framework
The Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), a nonprofit international industry consortium, recently released two new specifications related to the MEF 3.0 framework. According to the organization, the specifications, dubbed Information Model (MEF 59) and Interface Profile Specification...
SevOne pushes SDN migration with monitoring solution updates
SevOne introduces SDN Monitoring Solution 2.0 for Cisco ACI
Infrastructure management software company SevOne premiered the second version of its software-defined defined (SDN) monitoring platform for Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI).
SevOne launched its SDN Monitoring Solution last year. The solution combines SevOne’s network and infrastructure...
NetScout brings smart data technology to LFN
NetScout Systems becomes member of LFN
The Linux Foundation Networking Fund (LFN) continues to grow with NetScout Systems Inc. jumping on board as its newest member.
LFN was founded at the beginning of the year as a way to house the Linux Foundation's open source projects...
How to virtualize the core network
Core network virtualization
Network operators are virtualizing their core networks in an effort to gain a competitive edge in the marketplace. By enabling virtualization in the core network, service providers can significantly decrease operational expenditure (OPEX) and capital expenditure (CAPEX), while accelerating the delivery of...
Understanding end-to-end network slicing for 5G
Network slicing and 5G
Network slicing has received significant attention among telecom operators, especially with the commercialization of 5G networks on the horizon. Based upon the principles of network functions virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN), network slicing is expected to play a major role...
Lumina pushes SDN adoption with new features to Flow Manager
Lumina adds new features to Flow Manager product
Lumina Networks recently announced it has implemented new features in its Flow Manager product, which enables large network providers to start evolving their BGP/MPLS routers toward software-defined networking (SDN), according to the company.
Lumina rolled into the SDN market...
China Mobile expands SDN support with Nuage Networks VSP
China Mobile selects Nuage Networks VSP to provide public, private and hybrid cloud services
China Mobile Communications Corporation (CMCC) recently announced that it has chosen Nokia’s Nuage Networks Virtualized Services Platform (VSP) as the software-defined networking (SDN) platform for its public and private enterprise cloud...
The new era of Software-Defined IT: Where we’re going next (Reality Check)
Two years ago, I was welcoming our customers to the era of Software-Defined IT (SDIT). Today, that warm welcome still stands as more and more companies are embracing software-defined networking (SDN), SD-WAN, cloud migration, and software as a service (SaaS) technologies. Additionally, as the digital evolution of business exponentially accelerates, we see profound impacts...
Top five intent-based networking vendors
A new kind of networking
Many vendors are shifting focus from software-defined networking (SDN) to intent-based networking. Although still an emerging technology, the basic idea behind intent-based networking is to enable a user to determine how a network behaves by choosing and applying policies across...
Dell EMC pushes open networking to the edge with VEP family
Dell EMC announces Virtual Edge Platform (VEP) family
Dell EMC is taking open networking to the edge for next-generation access with the introduction of a new family of products, referred to as the VEP family. The VEP family includes the EMC VEP4600 along with three...
Sedona introduces hierarchical SDN controller for multi-layer networks
Sedona announces Hierarchical Network Controller
Sedona Systems recently rolled out its new Hierarchical Network Controller product, which automatically provisions and optimizes layer 0 to 3 services across multi-layer, vendor and domain networks.
Sedona describes itself as the global leader in multi-layer network automation and control. Its...
Huawei pushes intent-driven networks with CloudCampus solution
Huawei introduces intent-driven CloudCampus solution
Huawei unveiled its intent-driven CloudCampus solution along with new programmable switches for enterprise campus networks at the Huawei Western Europe Partner Summit 2018 in Amsterdam.
Intent-driven networks (IDN) involve focusing on meeting the needs of the end user leveraging cloud, big...
Verizon, Colt demonstrate inter-carrier SDN orchestration
Verizon and Colt make step toward real-time, cross carrier network automation
Verizon and Colt reportedly demonstrated two-way, inter carrier Software Defined Networking (SDN) orchestration by making near real-time bandwidth changes in each other’s production networks.
SDN is an architecture that has come to prominence as an...
ONF forms Stratum to advance next-generation SDN interfaces
ONF announces new open source Stratum project
The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) announced a new project, dubbed Stratum, with the aim of implementing a reference platform for a software-defined data plane based on white-box switches. To jump-start the project, Google is open sourcing the first...
Oracle: Microservices, network slices key to 5G operator efficiency
RFIs for 5G core are coming out now; RFPs to follow in 2019, Oracle VP says
5G, for operators, is all about efficiency and flexibility--lowering the cost per bit per hertz of data transported by optimizing network and spectrum resources, and using automation to do...
AT&T’s makes OpenROADM headway with optical interoperability test
AT&T moving from testing to deploying OpenROADMs
Having achieved optical interoperability between equipment made by different vendors, AT&T is moving forward with plans to scale Open Reconfigurable Optical Add/Drop Multiplexer (ROADM) deployments using multiple vendors and an optical SDN controller integrated into ECOMP.
ROADMs are switches...
Netsurion rolls into SD-WAN market with platform launch
Netsurion launches SD-WAN platform Netsurion Connect
Network security services company Netsurion is rolling into the SD-WAN market with the launch of Netsurion Connect, which the company said combines network connectivity, security and management for distributed enterprises and IoT environments.
Netsurion was founded in 1989. The company...
How virtual, hybrid and SD-WANs compare and contrast
Different WAN technologies
Software-defined networking (SDN) has played a major role in reshaping wide-area networks (WANs). So much so that other WAN technologies, such virtual WAN and hybrid WAN, are often mistakenly conflated with SD-WAN. While virtual and hybrid WAN technologies share similar goals with...
Netscout Q&A: Service assurance in the age of network virtualization
Dynamic service assurance is needed to support IoT and 5G
In an interview with RCR Wireless News during Mobile World Congress 2018, John English, Netscout Systems product line manager, explained the challenges operators face in maintaining service assurance as they virtualize infrastructure to gradually automate...
Coriant, Aricent combine solutions to deliver NFV, SDN capabilities
Coriant integrates Aricent's NFV MANO
Coriant is integrating Aricent’s network functions virtualization (NFV) management and orchestration (MANO) framework to accelerate and power its Transcend SDN-solution. The companies said the collaboration will enable operators to deploy virtualized value-added services quicker and secure new services.
NFV involves virtualizing...
AT&T makes SD-WAN available to more than 150 countries
AT&T extends hybrid networking options
AT&T recently announced it is making its SD-WAN service available to over 150 countries and territories.
AT&T originally deployed its platform, dubbed SD-WAN - Network Based, to select customers in the U.S. in 2017. The expansion of AT&T’s SD-WAN ought to...
The role of SDN in intent-based networking
The future of networking
Software-defined networking (SDN) is expected to play a role in the enablement of intent-based networking systems (IBNS), which promise to give network administrators greater control over networks through a mix of automation and machine learning. While SDN and intent-based networking are...