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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...

Apcela rolls out Enhanced Analytics Platform with SD-WAN API

Apcela aims to improve machine learning with Enhanced Analytics Platform Application delivery company Apcela is breaking into machine learning with the deployment of its Enhanced Analytics Platform (EAP). Accompanying the platform is a SD-WAN API, which extends Cisco’s SD-WAN solution with Elastic’s ElasticSearch, Logstash and...

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...

Aryaka enters China’s SD-WAN market under China Mobile partnership

Aryaka lands deal with China Mobile Aryaka announced a partnership with China Mobile International (CMI) to deliver what the company claims to be the first compliant global SD-WAN service for international companies with locations in China, and Chinese companies with a global presence. Under the agreement,...

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...

Juniper OpenContrail evolves into the Linux Foundation’s Tungsten Fabric

The Linux Foundation announces Tungsten Fabric Juniper Networks’ open-source network virtualization platform OpenContrail has finished migrating to the Linux Foundation and rebranded itself as Tungsten Fabric. Juniper originally open sourced OpenContrail in 2013 and announced it was moving to the Linux Foundation last December. The company...

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...

Siemens cashes in on SD-WAN with $294 million Orange contract

Siemens extends contract with Orange Siemens AG has extended its contract with Orange Business Services to help it migrate to a software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) infrastructure that will connect 1,500 sites in 94 countries. Orange has previously worked with Siemens as a MPLS networking provider. The six...

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...

What’s the outlook on network slicing for 5G?

Industry leaders share their perspectives on network slicing Using software-defined networking to run multiple, virtual networks on a single, physical infrastructure--that's the dream of 5G. As new services are created, servers will hop into action to create a customized, on-demand data pipe that will connect...

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...

Aryaka offers six security layers with Passport platform

Aryaka unveils multi-layered security platform Passport SD-WAN provider Aryaka rolled out a new platform, called Passport, providing its customers with as many as six layers of security. The added layers of security come from Aryaka’s security partners, including Palo Alto Networks, Radware and Zscaler. The security...

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...

Huawei looks to cut service provider opex with automation solution

Huawei software tool uses AI, data analysis to streamline field operations As operators around the world continuously upgrade and densify their networks, managing that increasingly complex environment brings increasing costs related to truck rolls, field technicians and other operational expenses. To counteract this trend, Huawei...

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...

Cisco pushes intent-based networking initiative with new tools

Cisco unveils SD-WAN vAnalytics and Meraki Insight Cisco advanced its intent-based networking initiative with two new products, SD-WAN vAnalytics and Meraki Insight, which reportedly bring insight and visibility into the wide-area network (WAN). Intent-based networking involves determining how a network behaves by choosing and applying policies...

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...

Security concerns motivate SD-WAN adoption, Versa study finds

Versa Networks publishes global SD-WAN survey Versa Networks recently published a report that found software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) adoption is on the rise as a way to improve security. SD-WAN is a way of connecting and securing WANs, which are used by data centers and...

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...

Orange integrates Radisys’ vMRF with ONAP Amsterdam for VNF onboarding

Orange brings Radisys’ vMRF to ONAP Amsterdam Orange Labs Networks has integrated Radisys Corporation’s virtualized Media Resource Function (vMRF) into the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Amsterdam release. Orange is a founding member of ONAP, which is a combination of AT&T’s Open ECOMP and The Linux...