Partners with Infinera and Juniper Networks to Enable End-to-End Network
Automation and Control
Project, the Companies Join Forces to Accelerate Network Transformation
30, 2017 – (JCN Newswire) – NEC Corporation and Netcracker Technology announced
today that, in partnership with Infinera and Juniper Networks, they have
released a new Transport SDN solution designed to transform how networks are
managed and controlled.
Combining Infinera’s strength in building its
Intelligent Transport Networks, Juniper’s industry-leading capabilities in
IP/MPLS, physical/virtual network functionality and domain orchestration, and
NEC/Netcracker’s multilayer control and service orchestration expertise,
including NEC’s advanced network transport products, the partnership enables a
compelling new Transport SDN solution. This new solution provides full
visibility across all IP, optical and microwave domains, including SDN and traditional
network environments, optimizes network utilization and automates service
provisioning and path restoration.
This solution benefits service providers by
enabling network transformations that intelligently adapt to the dynamic
requirements of end users with the ability to carve out network slices for
specific services end-to-end. This makes it possible to accommodate changing
traffic patterns and on-demand customer requests, deliver an improved customer
experience and produce significant cost savings by optimizing capacity usage.
Additionally, the solution empowers service providers to automate their network
service infrastructure, enabling them to focus their resources on expanding
revenue opportunities while optimizing their service costs at any given time.
NEC/Netcracker, Infinera and Juniper Networks
demonstrated their joint solution as part of the Optical Interworking Forum
(OIF)/Open Networking Foundation (ONF) Transport API project where the
participants executed a multidomain path selection and recovery test plan with
intra-lab and inter-lab testing across multiple global carrier labs, including
both Verizon’s and Telefonica’s. In the demo, NEC/Netcracker’s Multilayer SDN
Controller used the new Transport API defined by the ONF to communicate with
Juniper’s NorthStar Controller at Verizon’s lab and the Infinera Xceed optical
SDN domain controllers at Telefonica’s lab. NEC/Netcracker’s Service
Orchestration solution successfully created and managed Ethernet point-to-point
private services across multiple vendors and multiple operators’ domains. All
tests were completed successfully.
“Service providers need a master Transport
SDN solution that optimizes network traffic and automates configuration to
maximize performance across all transport layers,” said Shigeru Okuya,
Senior Vice President at NEC Corporation. “With the support of our
partners, NEC and Netcracker ensure that our customers can leverage
best-of-breed solutions with minimal risk to enable end-to-end network
automation and control.”
“We are excited to bring this new solution
to market, showcasing how virtualization can enable a completely new set of
automation and optimization opportunities to enhance networks with innovative
visualization, operations, optimized capacity planning and utilization
functionality,” said Aloke Tusnial, Chief Technology Officer, SDN/NFV
Business at Netcracker. “By partnering with industry leaders like Juniper
and Infinera, NEC/Netcracker is bringing a pre-integrated best-of-breed
solution that offers customers flexibility and choice in fundamentally
rethinking their network design and level of automation.”
“Juniper Networks is committed to improving
network automation so our customers can respond to changing traffic patterns
with speed and agility, while optimizing network utilization,” said Brian
Rosenberg, Corporate Vice President of Partners and Alliances at Juniper
Networks. “We are excited to partner with NEC/Netcracker to enable service
providers to accelerate automation to meet network demands through the new
Transport SDN solution.”
“Infinera’s goal is to provide highly
scalable, automated and open Intelligent Transport Network solutions for our
customers as they address a new era of more dynamic and ever-greater bandwidth
demand,” said Serge Melle, Vice President of Business Development at
Infinera. “To this end, we are pleased to partner with NEC/Netcracker and
Juniper to deliver a best-in-class multi-layer IP plus optical SDN networking
solution.”
About NEC Corporation
NEC Corporation is a leader in the integration
of IT and network technologies that benefit businesses and people around the
world. By providing a combination of products and solutions that cross utilize
the company’s experience and global resources, NEC’s advanced technologies meet
the complex and ever-changing needs of its customers. NEC brings more than 100
years of expertise in technological innovation to empower people, businesses
and society. For more information, visit NEC at http://www.nec.com.
Based on its Mid-term Management Plan 2015, the
NEC Group globally provides “Solutions for Society” that promote the
safety, security, efficiency and equality of society. Under the company’s
corporate message of “Orchestrating a brighter world,” NEC aims to
help solve a wide range of challenging issues and to create new social value
for the changing world of tomorrow. For more information, please visit http://www.nec.com/en/global/about/solutionsforsociety/message.html.
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