Fiber Mountain Lifts the Veil on its Hyperscale SDN-based Data Center Solutions
By Fiber Mountain Inc. today at Interop formally unveiled a trio of SDN-based solutions designed to enable the data center to scale with simplicity.
That includes the Alpine Orchestration System, Optical Path Exchange and Connectivity Virtualization solutions, and the SDN Optical Edge Switch.
The Alpine Orchestration System is software that provides visibility of every network element and connection within a data center network via a single user interface.
The Optical Edge Switch top-of-rack switch can connect via Fiber Mountain’s Glass Core architecture to any other switch or device directly, and the orchestration system can create Programmable Light Paths between those points at 10, 40, or 100gbps. This is an alternative to using expensive core switches to enable that connectivity.
In an interview the appeared in the July/August issue of INTERNET TELEPHONY magazine, a TMC publication, Fiber Mountain founder and CEO M.H. Raza commented that as bandwidth needs have grown, network infrastructure in the data center has gone through several transitions. One of those was the proliferation of packet aggregation points. First there was the core switch, then a second packet aggregation point at the edge of the row (end-of-row switch), and then a third packet aggregation point at the edge of the rack (top-of-rack switch), and now a fourth packet aggregation point at the edge of the server.
“Fiber Mountain has developed a Glass Core, which replaces several packet-processing hops in the network, allowing direct connections between edge devices,” he said. “This results in less packet processing in the network, which directly translates to fewer switches, less power consumption, less heat dissipation, less space requirement, and a better TCO model for the data center.”
Most specifically, he said, Fiber Mountain delivers two times the capacity for half the cost. And, he adds, while the solution does leverage SDN and virtualization, the Fiber Mountain technology was designed and developed to coexist with customers’ legacy networks.
Edited by Alisen Downey
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