Brocade introduced the Brocade Vyatta Controller as a keystone
product in its Software-Defined Networking (SDN) portfolio and the
next step toward delivering on the customer benefits of its open
networking platform strategy. Commercially supported by Brocade, this
SDN controller is built continuously from the OpenDaylight Project, a
community-led open source initiative aimed at accelerating the
adoption of SDN and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) in order
to provide levels of agility and efficiency not possible in
traditional IP networking.
The increasing adoption of cloud, mobile and social technologies
by consumers and businesses has brought user-centrism to the
strategic front for both IT organizations and service providers.
Along with required changes in how network services are deployed,
such as NFV, this trend has also added significant management and
operational complexity for network engineers and architects to solve.
These challenges also include adding significant new capabilities for
network control and programmability. Addressing the issues
collectively, the industry is starting to describe this as the
migration toward the New IP.
“Networking must address the compounding forces of cloud
computing, mobile and social, all of which have common
characteristics of being on-demand and highly personalized,” said
Zeus Kerravala, Founder and Principal Analyst at ZK Research. “The
realms of compute and storage have already adapted to these
requirements. However the network remains as static and unresponsive
as it was from its original design point in the old world of IP. The
Brocade Vyatta Controller is one solution to help the network unlock
innovation and adapt to the demand-driven world.”
The use cases for SDN are directly proportional to the
applications developed and deployed. By introducing open source into
the SDN equation, customers are free to innovate on their own, or
they can partner with the vibrant OpenDaylight community to develop
new capabilities that modern networks require.
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