Brocade Unveils Open Networking Platform for Service Providers - Seite 2

"The growing complexity of today's virtualized networks has made it no longer feasible to rely on a single vendor to deliver an end-to-end solution that fits every customer's requirements of service agility and scalability," said Kelly Herrell, vice president and general manager of Software Networking at Brocade. "The Brocade Vyatta Platform is the industry's first truly open platform to embrace a growing vendor ecosystem dedicated to open standards and open source projects for cloud and telco providers seeking software-based solutions to achieve new revenue streams and regain control over their networks."

By adopting a software platform approach, such as the Brocade Vyatta Platform, customers gain control over each layer of their infrastructure to ensure they leverage the right components and adapt more quickly to changing business conditions, all while reducing CapEx and OpEx.

"Where individual SDN and NFV technologies will address specific problems, the platform approach will accelerate the full realization of a modern network model," Herrell said. "Furthermore, in working with industry partners we will continue to build out the Brocade Vyatta Platform to advance interoperability and ensure the platform is carrier-grade."

Brocade is actively engaged with partners on broader industry initiatives, such as OpenDaylight and OpenStack, advancing their capabilities and ensuring seamless interoperability between platform layers. Additionally, Brocade is aggressively partnering with several vendor ecosystems that are delivering solutions that build upon various combinations of these platform capabilities. For example, the NFV Connection Services components of the Brocade Vyatta Platform are anchored through the Layer 3-7 capabilities of the Brocade Vyatta vRouter and Brocade vADX products, which are available today and deployed worldwide. For more information on Brocade SDN and NFV products, visit www.brocade.com/NFV.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

The Network as an Open Platform: Driving New Market Value for Telcos, Heavy Reading

ADDITIONAL QUOTES:

Neela Jacques, Executive Director of OpenDaylight Project
"The OpenDaylight Project was founded on the knowledge that as customers adopted SDN and NFV technologies, interoperability was going to be a critical requirement and open source would serve as a major force in this area. The Brocade Vyatta Platform is leading by example in not only offering interoperability, but also embracing open source at the core of its strategy."

Stu Miniman, Principal Research Contributor at Wikibon
"Service providers are challenged with managing high growth rates and therefore need architectures that facilitate the expansion of flexible network designs, while significantly reducing operational and capital costs. Users are looking for extensible platforms that can create a software ecosystem of services for networking. The Brocade Vyatta Platform embraces the open software model, allowing customers to take advantage of a complete interoperable and modular solution."

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