Alcatel-Nuage Networks introduces SDN Solution

Alcatel-Lucent's Nuage Networks has introduced an open software-based solution to address the key data center network constraints that limit cloud services adoption. This second- generation SDN solution has been designed to accelerate the move towards business cloud services. The Virtualized Services Platform (VSP) will allow healthcare, banking, utilities and other enterprise market segments, as well as webscale companies – large Internet-based companies – and telecom service providers, to scale their cloud offers and provide instant, secure connectivity to multiple customers.

This software solution will provide an open, software-only solution that works with OpenStack, CloudStack and VMware cloud environments and any data center network switches, along with delivering seamless network connectivity inside the data center, between data centers as well as data center to Enterprise VPN connectivity.

Sunil Khandekar, CEO, Nuage Networks, said, “SDN is one of the most exciting and promising new technologies in data center networking. At Nuage Networks, we are focussed on getting the network out of the way so that it no longer constrains the server and storage resources or the performance of cloud services. We do that by offering a platform that is technology and layer agnostic. As more and more companies move to a cloud service environment, we can help them automate their networks to deliver instant connectivity to their customers.”

This solution will make the networks available instantaneously even if the application moves to a virtual machine in another rack of servers or to another data center. The solution will deliver full programmability using a set of standardized APIs.