- First in the industry to deliver consistent policy-driven
network automation across enterprise locations, the wide area
network, and cloud data centers
BASKING RIDGE, New Jersey,
Nov. 12, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Nuage
Networks, the Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) venture
focused on delivering innovative software defined networking (SDN)
solutions, is to extend the benefits of SDN to branch locations
anywhere.
Announced today at the 2014 Alcatel-Lucent Technology Symposium,
Nuage Networks' Virtualized Network Services (VNS) solution will
help enterprises and service providers maximize the agility of IT
infrastructures with instantaneous and secure network service
delivery to remote locations over any network infrastructure.
VNS seamlessly extends the benefits of policy-driven network
automation and application-friendly abstraction to branch
locations, paving the way for a dramatically more responsive
operational environment. Nuage Networks VNS speeds the deployment
of new sites by a factor of ten, while reducing operational
expenditures by over fifty percent.
While data centers are rapidly adopting more flexible and
automated networking with SDN, branch architectures have remained
largely unchanged for more than a decade. Branch offices are still
stuck with expensive, complex, proprietary network equipment and
slow, complex provisioning systems.
In extending the Virtualized Services Platform (VSP), Nuage
Networks has taken a fresh approach to branch office networking
that expands freedom of choice and offers a new operational model
for delivering network services. Nuage Networks VNS can exploit and
utilize both corporate WAN and Internet access bandwidth securely,
to increase the range of application deployment options and reduce
cost without compromising visibility and control. VNS enables the
creation of templates that describe and manage the workflow of
network services for any combination of applications in any cloud,
and at any location. This automated network workflow delivers the
right services, at the right time, to the right location, and
ensures that it is error-free.
"We are excited about this latest innovation from Nuage
Networks," said Pascual de Juan,
Global Head of Innovation in Technologies at BBVA Digital Bank.
"Extending SDN network automation capabilities to BBVA cloud
regions will allow us to turn up and adapt our network services in
a far more timely and efficient way, streamlining operations and
improving our agility by automating network connectivity and
services in a policy-based fashion that aligns with our business
objectives."
Sunil Khandekar, CEO of Nuage
Networks, added: "With Nuage Networks VSP being increasingly
recognized as the SDN platform of choice, the time has come for SDN
to branch out beyond data centers, extending the capabilities of
policy-based network automation and effortless connection to all
business locations. Nuage Networks VNS can dramatically simplify
the delivery and consumption of network services by and for the
world's leading enterprises."
"As part of our business service portfolio, we are evaluating
different deployment models to meet the expanding needs of our
enterprise customers. We are looking towards network automation
that is programmable and can be dynamically tailored to the unique
business requirements of our customers," said Drew Gilpin, Director of Sales and Marketing at
Kordia New Zealand. "We applaud the extension of Nuage Networks SDN
solution to include policy-driven network services to connect the
enterprise branch to the cloud."
While the industry has begun to acknowledge the gaps in
traditional branch networking, alternatives only offer partial
solutions focused on cloud-based management of CPE, cost-optimized
premises equipment, or incremental security enhancements while
largely propagating existing operational models. Nuage Networks VNS
solution departs with the status quo with a cohesive end-to-end
policy framework that spans from datacenters to branches anywhere,
accompanied by a minimal-touch provisioning model for open CPE and
network services across any cloud or network infrastructure.
By removing another networking constraint for the cloud, Nuage
Networks VNS has made a significant leap in IT application delivery
and workflow automation that enables enterprises and service
providers to deliver network services where needed, when needed,
and as needed. Enterprises or the service providers who serve them
can define services with full control and visibility applied and
managed over:
- Any network with freedom of choice across on-net,
off-net, and internet options
- Any cloud with flexibility across private, public, and
hybrid cloud options
- Any form or deployment model with freedom of choice
among open (x86) CPE platforms, software-based premise options, and
hosted virtual CPE deployment models
"With its Virtualized Network Services (VNS), Nuage Networks
offers enterprises a new operational model for delivering and
consuming cloud services consistently from private & public
data centers to their branch locations and distributed users," said
Brad Casemore, IDC. "Within this
context, a comprehensive application-centric policy framework can
significantly simplify today¹s complex networking workflows,
deliver greater agility, and result in compelling OPEX
savings."
The Nuage Networks VNS solution consists of the industry leading
Virtualized Services Platform (VSP) working in concert with any
open array of compute platforms serving as customer premise
equipment (CPE) based on standard compute platforms. Nuage Networks
VNS is in trials now and will be commercially available in Q1
2015.
To learn more about Nuage Networks Virtualized Network Services,
please visit www.nuagenetworks.net/vns. Watch ACG's Hot Seat on
Nuage Networks VNS here.
ABOUT NUAGE NETWORKS
Nu-ahj: From French, meaning
'cloud'. Nuage Networks brings a combination of technologies and
networking expertise to the enterprise and telecommunications
industries. The Silicon Valley-based start up has applied new
thinking to the problem of delivering massively scalable and highly
programmable SDN solutions with the security and availability
required by business-critical environments. Nuage Networks, backed
by Alcatel-Lucent's (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) rapidly growing
IPR&T division, has the pedigree to serve the needs of the
world's biggest clouds. The cloud has made promises – the mission
of Nuage Networks is to help you realize them.
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