Software is becoming an increasingly important part of telecommunication networks and deployments as both wired and wireless carriers look to add functionality to operations while increasing simplicity and reducing costs. RCR Wireless News is keeping an eye on recent developments through its weekly “Software” wrap up.
Alcatel-Lucent’s Nuage Networks venture announced that Europe-based hosting provider OVH has selected its software-defined networking Virtualized Services Platform to deploy within its data centers in a move to support dedicated cloud services for customers.
The deal calls for OVH to deploy Nuage’s VSP to offer an “OpenStack as a service” platform for customers that can access dedicated servers in the OVH Private Cloud Computing infrastructure. The offer will enable the leveraging the OpenStack standard to “define both network and data center resources for a better performing, more programmable and operationally efficient cloud environment.”
Nuage said the platform will also allow OVH customers to provision service immediately according to their predefined policies; provide for control and visibility of dedicated servers through a common policy framework; eliminate data center networking restrictions; and lower costs by reducing dependencies on proprietary hardware.
Alcatel-Lucent launched the Nuage venture earlier this year to focus company efforts on SDN. Nuage’s first product was virtualization for data centers, though the company also announced plans to target SDN solutions for healthcare, banking, utilities and other enterprise verticals, as well as large Internet-based companies and telecom service providers.
–Mobility management software provider NetMotion Wireless launched its Mobility Commercial Edition Mobile VPN solution, targeting enterprise customers looking to provide employees with mobile access to corporate data. The company said the offering provides a “consistent, secure connection to applications and corporate assets, regardless of location, device, platform or network.”
NetMotion explained that its platform creates a virtual, always-on connection environment for enterprise workers, while reducing connection issued tied to roaming and other forms of coverage drops. The service also reportedly allows for dynamic policy adjustments with “enterprise-grade encryption,” and used traffic optimization technologies like compression, coalescence, traffic shaping and best bandwidth routing to provide increased download speeds.
The platform provides a central point of management, with the software compatible with Apple’s iOS and “most” Microsoft Windows and Google’s Android operating system.
NetMotion earlier this year tapped former Clearwire CEO Erik Prusch to head up its operations. Prusch lost his position at Clearwire following Sprint’s acquisition of the remaining stake in the company it did not already control.
–Wind River said it plans to demonstrate its network function virtualization software platform at the upcoming SDN & OpenFlow World Congress. The demonstration will include Wind River’s Titanium Server software that is designed to work on commercial off-the-shelf Hewlett-Packard ProLiant servers.
Wind River noted the demonstration will include use cases for the Titanium Server platform, including ETSI NFV use cases for high availability in the ETSI Proof-of-Concept Zone at the event. The European Telecommunications Standards Institute recently released nine NFV-related draft documents for public comment as well as announcing new leadership of its initiative.
–Intel’s Network Builders program received a new member as NetNumber announced plans to join the NFV and SDN-focused efforts. The program was set up to accelerate the deployment of SDN and NFV solutions, with members of the program providing access to a reference architecture library of solutions set for “implementation in production environments.”
NetNumber brings to the table its TITAN common infrastructure platform designed to handle all signaling control, policy enforcement and subscriber database services in a network. The company claims the platform “drives complexity out of the NFV model by delivering a single platform that integrates directly into the NFV service-orchestration layer supporting multi-protocol signaling-control services, including SS7/C7, DNS/ENUM, SIP and diameter.” NetNumber said the product has been deployed on more than 350 servers on five continents and supports more than 200 billion transactions per month.
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