Transforming Network Infrastructure Week in Review: Huawei, IDC, ONF, Telefonica
By Transforming Network Infrastructure was all about software-defined networking this week, as Casey Houser discussed a new release from the ONF, Christopher Mohr detailed a Huawei-Telefonica trial, and Susan J. Campbell explained what she sees as the must-have capabilities of SDN.
As Houser explained, the Open Networking Foundation has put out a new release of Atrium SDN, which now supports OpenDaylight (as well as the Open Networking Operating System controller). The Atrium SDN programming tools also includes border gateway protocol and Open Compute Project functionality and support.
Huawei and Telefonica, meanwhile, revealed the trial they launched in March of SDN IP optical network technology was a success and Telefonica de Peru is now moving forward with a commercial implementation of the solution.
Also this week, Campbell opines about what’s needed to ensure an SDN implementation has top-level efficiency. To ensure top-level performance for big data analytics, she suggests, leveraging Hadoop can be a good match due to its low latency and distributed nature. She also talks about the security benefits SDN can offer due to its micro-segmentation of virtual machines and applications. SDN can also deliver new efficiencies on the network management front, she added, by offering a single view of all traffic.
According to an International Data Corp report issued this month, the SDN market is poised to reach $12.5 billion by 2020. That takes into consideration both the applications, physical and software-based infrastructure, and professional services involved.
“Not surprisingly, the value of SDN will accrue increasingly to network virtualization software and to SDN applications, including virtualized network and security services,” said Rohit Mehra, IDC’s vice president of network infrastructure. “Large enterprises are now realizing the value of SDN in the data center, but ultimately, they will also recognize its applicability across the WAN to branch offices and to the campus network."
