Brocade Advances SDN Leadership With OpenFlow 1.3 Support Across IP Routing and Switching Portfolio - Seite 2

As service providers and enterprises begin the journey to SDN, they must continue to support their present mode of operation, for both economic and operational reasons. With the industry's only true OpenFlow Hybrid Port Mode offering, Brocade provides customers with a pragmatic and efficient transition, enabling interworking between SDN and non SDN networks. Capable of running OpenFlow forwarding on the same physical infrastructure as traditional networking protocols, Brocade OpenFlow-enabled products allow customers to apply SDN for new capabilities while continuing to support existing network services. The result is an evolutionary rollout of SDN without an expensive "fork-lift" replacement of equipment.

"While the data center has been the logical starting place for the deployment of SDN technologies, customers are realizing increased needs for SDN in campus and WAN environments," said Jason Nolet, vice president, Data Center Networking at Brocade. "With comprehensive OpenFlow support across our IP routing and switching portfolios, Brocade offers its customers a wide range of solutions to fit their network needs."

Extending the programmable architecture of the Brocade MLXe routers are two new hardware modules designed to expand SDN scale. The Brocade MLXe 2-port 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) CFP2 and the Brocade MLXe 20-port 10 GbE modules increase network flexibility and scale to advance service innovation without sacrificing performance. Built on Brocade VersaScale™ Packet Processing technology, these modules provide built-in investment protection with integrated OpenFlow support and upgradeability to future SDN capabilities.

Support for OpenFlow 1.3 on the Brocade MLXe, CER and CES product families will is planned for June 2014. Current customers can upgrade to OpenFlow 1.3 at no additional cost. The Brocade ICX and VDX products are currently OpenFlow-enabled in hardware and are designed to provide software support later this year.

OPEN NETWORKING SUMMIT

At ONS (March 3-5, 2014), Brocade will demonstrate a number of OpenFlow-enabled solutions in booth 505, including the Brocade MLXe, ICX and VDX products.

• OpenFlow 1.3 Campus Demo: Brocade showcases how OpenFlow 1.3 can enable the open, software-defined campus network and how it supports new requirements such as BYOD. This demo includes Brocade MLXe Core Routers and Brocade ICX Switches in an optimized campus use case for integrated, secure networks using SDN for dynamic traffic isolation, load balancing and QoS.