NoviFlow’s NoviWare NOS
Combined with Lumina’s SDN Controller, deliver carrier-grade MPLS core
router capabilities at a fraction of the cost of proprietary vendor
solutions
THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Oct 10 (Bernama-GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NoviFlow Inc., a leading vendor of high-performance OpenFlow-based switching and routing solutions, and Lumina Networks,
Inc. a market leading provider of vendor-independent SDN controller and
applications powered by OpenDaylight™, today announced a partnership to
deliver a Software Defined Core - SD-Core, using the world’s highest
performance MPLS and Segment Routing based forwarding plane.
SD-Core
redefines a carrier-grade architecture and technology-set for deploying
scalable MPLS and Segment Routing based networks using SDN and white
box technologies, enabling network providers to evolve their core
networks to SDN, while retaining the protocols, products and reliability
of their existing networks.
The solution builds on the needs of
large MPLS networks to scale beyond the capabilities of typical core
routers, while reducing costs, and enabling modern SDN and VNF-based
architectures. Distributing the forwarding and data planes into separate
elements, allows large network providers to adopt SDN, scale their
control plane, adopt white box switches but keep their existing core
router vendor, through a cap-and-switch strategy.
Unlike
competing white box solutions, NoviWare, Noviflow’s high-performance
OpenFlow forwarding plane software has been designed to address the
complex MPLS requirements of carrier-grade networks and delivers over a
million simultaneous flows using a programmable match-action pipeline,
supporting all OpenFlow 1.3 and 1.4 actions, instructions and match
fields, along with key OpenFlow 1.5 features.
Providing control
and applications for NoviWare’s dataplane, Lumina’s SDN Controller
provides OpenFlow control to the data plane, while working with the
network’s legacy routing software to integrate seamlessly with existing
network nodes. Interfaces for provisioning, service assurance and
operational tasks are made available via REST APIs and can be integrated
with orchestrators to support TOSCA NFV service definitions.
The
solution is built to allow the gradual migration of MPLS services –
point-to-point E-line, L3VPN, E-tree, etc. to the new infrastructure,
allowing the capping of investment of legacy core routers, while the
network evolves to deliver new SDN-based services.
Dominique
Jodoin, President and CEO of NoviFlow, explained, “The alliance between
Lumina and NoviFlow provides a compelling new end-to-end solution for
MPLS and Segment Routing, extending the radical CAPEX and OPEX benefits
of SDN/OpenFlow beyond the network’s edge and into the spine and core.
NoviWare provides a single uniform open standard-based forwarding plane
interface for OpenFlow, gRPC, and soon gNMI and P4-runtime, finally
delivering the programmable network that Tier 1 carriers, network
infrastructure providers, and enterprises have been waiting for.
NoviFlow is honored to join forces with a key player such as Lumina
Networks to offer unprecedented feature/performance in commercial SDN
solutions.”
“Taking specific SDN use cases out of the lab and
deploying them in real customers, with real problems is the cornerstone
of our value,” said Andrew Coward, CEO of Lumina Networks. “It’s rare
that a new solution is simultaneously lower cost, higher-performance and
ready for production, so working with NoviFlow to evolve the core of
our MPLS customers’ networks is a real demonstration of the power of SDN
used with white box technology”. “However, we don’t expect customers to
rip and replace their existing network, but rather cap their
investments in traditional core routers and start migrating non-mission
critical traffic, build confidence and then move to a considered
migration of traffic, blending old and new networks together - a
‘journey to the SD-Core’, so to speak.”
NoviFlow’s NoviWare
running on NPU’s and Barefoot’s Tofino will be demonstrated live in
NoviFlow’s booth (#A10) at the SDN and NFV World Congress on October
10-13, 2017 in The Hague, Netherlands. Lumina will also be demonstrating
the SD-Core solution live in their booth (#A09). We invite all
interested parties to come by and see the best in SDN/OpenFlow
solutions!
ABOUT NOVIFLOW
NoviFlow Inc.
provides open standard-based high-performance SDN networking solutions
to network operators, data center operators and enterprises seeking
greater performance, flexibility, cost-efficiency, and security over
their networks. NoviFlow has offices in Montreal, Sunnyvale and Seattle,
and representatives in Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East. For
more information, please visit https://noviflow.com/. Follow NoviFlow on Twitter @NoviFlowInc.
ABOUT LUMINA NETWORKS
Lumina Networks, Inc. believes
the future is open software networks where service providers are in
control of their development. Lumina is the catalyst that brings open
software networking out of the lab and into the live network. We develop
open source platforms and provide NetDev Services to jointly deliver
production systems and to transfer know-how in Agile Software
Development methods. For more information, visit https://www.luminanetworks.com/. Follow us on Twitter @luminanetworks.
PRESS CONTACTS
For NoviFlow Inc.
Liza Colburn
+1 (781) 562-0111
liza@crescendocc.com
Lumina Contact
Kevin Woods
+1 (408) 906-8514
kevin@luminanetworks.com
SOURCE : Lumina Networks, Inc.
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