SDN and NFV Market

To cater to SDN and NFV, Cisco provides Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS). Additionally, for cloud and systems management, the company offers Cisco Prime infrastructure, Cisco Prime network analysis module. In order to compete in the market, Cisco is continuously launching new products. For instance, in Feb 2016, the company launched NFV infrastructure solution, which would help service providers to enhance and automate NFV operation. This would provide faster services as well as reduce the total cost of ownership for the network. Furthermore, the company launched digital network architecture to enhance customer digital transformation.

The company offers a wide range of products, solutions, and services namely, network management, network edge services, packet optical, and Software-Defined Networking. Network management comprises Junos Space Management Applications, Junos Space Network Management Platform, Junos Space SDK, and Cloud Analytics Engine. Furthermore, Software-Defined Networking product offering, comprises Contrail, NorthStar Controller, WANDL IP/MPLS view, NFX 250 Network Services Platform. The Juniper’s packet optical offering includes BTI7800 packet optical transport platforms, BTI7000 series packet optical transport platforms, and ProNX service manager.

Product offerings of SDN and NFV product and solution portfolio comprises a wide range of products and solutions to cater to the market. Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) solution of NEC is aimed at providing benefits such as rapid service creation, installation, and monetization. Another SDN and NFV offering -Transport SDN solution is designed to meet multiple needs on demand by offering suitable network. Additionally, virtual core services solution is an open carrier grade virtualization platform that boosts performance and has features such as real-time processing and flexible scalability. NFV solution virtualized Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) is mobile core network. This solution brings SDN technology with the carrier grade virtualization platform.

IBM product portfolio that caters to the SDN and NFV market consists of a wide range of products and solutions such as, cloud orchestrator, flex systems, IBM SDN virtual enterprise solution, virtual fabric, IBM programmable network controller, and cloud manager with the open stack. Application performance management solution is designed to focus on identifying and addressing software application issues. The solution helps in providing a quality experience to end-users.

The company acquired Viptela Inc. which provides Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) services, that reduces cost, helps in easy network management and improves agility. With this acquisition, Cisco would be able to expand its product portfolio along with increased functionality distributed through the cloud. Apart from acquisitions, Cisco teamed up with Samsung, and formed a partnership with Verizon in order to provide interconnected Multi-vendor 5G trials for home broadband service.

The company’s product offering includes Big Cloud Fabric, Big Monitoring Fabric, and OpenStack Networking Nirvana. The Big Cloud Fabric is a data center fabric, developed using SDN controller and open networking hardware switches. Using Big Cloud Fabric, the data center infrastructure can be automated, and the performance can be enhanced four times in terms of configuration and enhancement. Big Cloud Fabric enables seamless integration with OpenStack using Neutron plugin. Using Big Cloud Fabric, physical and virtual switching infrastructure of the data center can be managed.

Huawei’s SDN and NFV market solution comprises SDN controller, cloud computing offering, router, and switches. Huawei’s agile SDN controller is the main component of SDN solution. This solution helps in rapidly providing benefits to changing requirements. Another offering in the SDN market is Huawei FusionSphere, which comprises carrier class server virtualization component, security, and network virtualization component along with distributed storage virtualization component. Huawei’s AR Series Agile Gateways, Net Engine Series Routers, AR G3 Series Routers, Multi-service Control Gateways provide features such as best IP routers and gateways for network services and communications.

Nuage Networks is engaged in enriching the Cloud-based experience of the users. The technology used by the platform is scalable, and the SDN network is easily able to combine data centres with diverse and extensive network areas. Hence the demand of the users is seamlessly and instantly met. The main aim of the company is to allow IT and IP to work in conjunction so that businesses are empowered to deliver productive results.

Pluribus Networks offers product offering which includes both products and solutions in SDN. The company offers Netvisor OS, a virtualized Network Operating System (NOS). Netvisor supports Open Compute Project/Open Network Install Environment (OCP/ONIE) switch.

The pica8 product portfolio for the SDN and NFV market comprises Live IP Media, Enterprise SDN App Store, Ethernet Switching, Data Center Network, Network Overlays, DevOPs Automation, Edge Services, and Cloud Orchestration. The COTS SDN switches for LIVE IP media is helping in reducing the strain on the network along with improving network performance and reducing cost. Additionally, these switches offer throughput as well as non-blocking capabilities which is required in SDI-based router network to IP transition.

Nokia Corporation is a telecommunication giant, engaged in offering IT, consumer electronics, and telecommunication services to the users. It has earned respect and name in the related field. It is one of the oldest companies in the field of network and telecommunications; no doubt in the fact that Nokia is a household name today owing to its carved solutions and technology that is unmatched and unparallel in the area. The company has touched human lives and transformed the way of connectivity across the globe. Simply put, all of the services offered by Nokia have changed the face of the IT market since time immemorial, and is continuing the same legacy through the extraordinary features listed below.

The company has a wide range of product and services offering to cater to the SDN and NFV market such as data Center Switches, Carrier Ethernet Switches, Campus Network Switches, Storage Networking, Fiber Channel, and Routers. Data center switches offer features which are designed to meet demands of cloud multi-vendor and virtualized environments. Another offering in switches is carrier Ethernet switches; it integrates all network services under carrier Ethernet platform. It assists high bandwidth application as well as integrates SDN. Along with carrier Ethernet switches, campus network switches offer simplified management, low total cost of ownership, and flexible scalability.

Ciena Corporation offers a broad range of products in the NFV and SDN market. The company offers products and services to monitor, optimize, manage, and control the network using SDN and NFV. The company’s NFV Orchestration enables more programmability in the network which reduces complexity.. NFV integrates the Operational Support System (OSS), SDN, and Virtual Infrastructure Manager (VIP) platform such as virtual WAN. The company also offers Multi-Domain Service Orchestration (MDSO), which is a modular and programmable architecture which is compatible with the cloud, multi-layer WAN, NFV, IP/MPLS, and many more.

Intel offers Intel Open Network Platform (Intel ONP), Intel Data Center Manager, and Intel Virtual Gateway in the SDN and NFV market. Intel ONP is a server reference architecture which is an integration of hardware and open software. Intel ONP offers integrated solutions of NFV and SDN. The benefits of the solutions are that it enables SDN/NFV environment, drives market adoption, and also upgrades open source community work. Intel Data Center Manager offers real-time, accurate, and thermal monitoring insights, which are useful for controlling of data center usage and hotspots.

Metaswitch is engaged in offering designs, manufactures, and developments to telecommunications software. They cater the software services to the communication segment, large companies, and equipment manufacturers. Their software solutions have been designed to achieve high-performance communications. The platform can empower the customer’s company to deliver high-quality operations. Voice, data, and unified communications services are required in mobile, fixed, and converged entities. Proper methodologies have been employed to offer agile development services. Moreover, their 5G Fusion Core, NOS Toolkit for Data, Perimeta SBC, Clearwater IMS Core for Voice and various other products for Unified Communications, Management, etc., make it a recognized leader in the development of ultra-high performance and cloud-native communications software.

If you speak of SDN and NFV, then these are two types of complementary networking services that are offered by Affirmed Networks. These two types make use of a practical framework that is common among them.

These are services that are offered by Affirmed Networks and operate at the granular and micro level. Both types are considered to be functional presently. Even if organizations want to implement the two, still each type is independent of the other.

Mellanox Technologies is a multi-national company engaged in supplying computer networking products. The company makes use of InfiniBand technology for the production of the products. They can provide the company with next-generation Cloud services to achieve the highest level of customer services. These days’ internet and Cloud technology are the trendiest and companies are acquiring the systems to store data in their various devices, and Mellanox makes the process much simpler and quicker. In a nutshell, Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of end-to-end Ethernet and intelligent interconnectivity services to numerous servers, storage, and converged infrastructure.

Zetta Network is a company providing network facilities. They have designed customized solutions for the customers and have been in business since 1996. The systems developed by the company are ISO 9001 2015 and PCI-DSS compliant. They are engaged in delivering high-speed internet services, VoIP, SIP trunks, hosted PBX, and secured networks for businesses. They are committed to enhancing your digital journey with business intelligence and technology automation. The NetOS software from the company is a network controlling and software management platform that offers unparalleled advantages to the network business operations. It helps you with multi-vendor changes as well as management of configurations all on a real-time basis.