Advances SDN management with the introduction of Brocade Flow Optimizer, an clever stream administration software that addresses real-time community efficiency challenges
Delivers SDN enhancements to Brocade MLXe routers to maximise community visibility and simplify forwarding management
Advancing the firm’s management in Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) in the present day introduced the Brocade Flow Optimizer software and new SDN capabilities in Brocade MLX Series routers. In the New IP, the Brocade Flow Optimizer allows the community to play a task in understanding anomalous visitors patterns and behaviors, and flags them or takes motion in actual time.
The Brocade Flow Optimizer is an SDN software that helps an OpenDaylight-based controller that gives real-time policy-based administration for community visitors flows. When coupled with Brocade MLXe routers, the Brocade Flow Optimizer allows service suppliers and enterprises to achieve proactive perception into their community visitors, mitigate community assaults, and eradicate community congestion, with the final aim of bettering the finish consumer expertise.
Organizations working in in the present day’s New IP surroundings face growing calls for for cloud-based purposes and have to assist social, cellular, and Big Data initiatives. However, community efficiency mixed with security-related assaults and breaches proceed to impede supply of providers and create further challenges to community and repair reliability. The Brocade Flow Optimizer software permits community managers to mitigate community flood assaults, throttle bandwidth intensive workloads, reprioritize rogue visitors, and redirect suspicious exercise for additional evaluation.
“Service providers are facing threats to the sustainability of their businesses and must reconsider their business models and their approaches to network design. Network intelligence is crucial for successful IP-based services and architectures,” mentioned Ray Mota, CEO and principal analyst at ACG Research. “Brocade, a leading vendor enabling the New IP, is addressing this problem with its comprehensive and open SDN architecture. The Brocade Flow Optimizer SDN application is a prime example of a solution that helps IT and telecom managers to more effectively optimize their networks. Ultimately, this enables them to deliver a better overall user experience, implement cost controls, and enhance revenue initiatives.”
Brocade additionally introduced the Brocade NetIron OS 5.9 software program, constructing on the continued development of SDN capabilities in the Brocade MLXe routers. Providing new OpenFlow options, this newest OS launch leverages the industry-leading Brocade VersaScaleâ„¢ programmable forwarding structure. By utilizing this structure with SDN purposes equivalent to the Brocade Flow Optimizer, organizations can enhance visibility over community visitors and simplify forwarding management.
“With the introduction of the Brocade Flow Optimizer, Brocade is taking a concrete step to help its customers maximize the value of software-driven networks and increase network performance by mitigating network attacks and enabling policy-based traffic engineering,” mentioned Jason Nolet, senior vp, Switching, Routing, and Analytics Products Group at Brocade. “Brocade is delivering on the merits of agile, New IP networks with a low-risk, highly innovative SDN solution.”
Brocade’s open SDN structure is a low-risk and modular answer that consists of the Brocade Flow Optimizer software, Brocade SDN Controller, Brocade MLXe routers, and Brocade ICX campus switches. This distinctive method to SDN means organizations can now use standards-based protocols, equivalent to OpenFlow, OpenDaylight-based SDN controllers, and open APIs for integration with third-party orchestration methods. With Brocade Hybrid Port expertise, conventional forwarding and OpenFlow visitors are concurrently supported on the similar port. This permits organizations to start out their journey to the New IP instantly, seamlessly introducing SDN into their current networks whereas defending present investments.
“As a strategic partner of the Academic Network at Sao Paulo (ANSP), Brocade helped us introduce and enable SDN in our network with innovations like Hybrid Port OpenFlow and the Brocade Flow Optimizer,” mentioned Luis Fernandez Lopez, Chief Technical Officer at ANSP. “As a result, we have gained huge network efficiencies by making our network programmable and reducing the time to provision new services from days to minutes.”
Brocade Solution Features and Benefits
Policy-based detection and administration of Layer 2-4 visitors flows improves community effectivity and the buyer expertise:
Proactive mitigation of volumetric Layer 2-4 visitors assaults prevents costly community downtime and repair interruption.
Support for REST APIs offers ease of integration with third-party cloud orchestration methods.
Seamless introduction of SDN into current networks with Hybrid Port OpenFlow protects current community investments.
A easy, user-friendly Web-based GUI with dashboards offers real-time occasion logging and detailed visitors statistics.
Pricing and Availability
The Brocade Flow Optimizer SDN software is mostly out there. Price is predicated on a perpetual software program license, relying on the community capability supported. Capacity for as much as 20 GB of visitors administration is priced at $4,995 and capability for as much as 200 GB of visitors administration is priced at $12,995. The Brocade NetIron OS 5.9 software program can be out there in the third quarter of 2015 at no further price to Brocade MLX clients with a present service contract topic to alter at Brocade’s sole discretion.
Additional Resources
Brocade Flow Optimizer Data Sheet
Brocade Flow Optimizer Solution Brief
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