Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) at present introduced new Network Visibility options and a accomplice ecosystem to empower cell community operators with crucial insights into the site visitors inside their networks, whereas additionally transitioning their visibility infrastructures from being closed and monolithic to software-enabled, open, and disaggregated.
With an open and software-centric architecture-cornerstones of the New IP-Brocade is redefining visibility infrastructures present in cell packet cores at present, enabling cell operators to speed up their journey to an agile infrastructure that may assist the explosive information progress and capability calls for of 4G/LTE and future 5G cell networks.
Mobile community operators are beneath important strain as the declining Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) derived from voice companies shouldn’t be being sufficiently offset by the ARPU progress from cell information. At the identical time, buyer adoption of Over-The-Top (OTT) services-such as video-is exploding, requiring much more community capability and efficiency. This development is driving the build-out of 4G/LTE networks and early planning for the upcoming deployment of 5G. In these transitions, cell operators are more and more counting on visibility and analytics to each management prices and allow new premium companies and income streams. Unfortunately, conventional visibility infrastructures weren’t designed to assist the newest era of cell networks.
Brocade’s modern strategy to constructing an open, software-enabled visibility infrastructure addresses this key problem. The Brocade Network Visibility product household contains:
– Brocade MLXe Packet Brokers and Brocade ICX Packet Brokers: A complete household of packet brokers to handle the big selection of density, efficiency, and programmability wants of Tier-1 cell operators
– Brocade Virtual Packet Broker: The trade’s first full-featured, digital TAP/packet dealer for vEPC environments
– Brocade Session Director: Software-based separation of cell management move processing in the visibility community to ship most scalability, real-time programmability of packet brokers, and enhanced community intelligence
– Brocade Packet Probes: Software-based, scalable, wire-speed packet processing engines that decode and scale back cell bearer and management site visitors to extract and ship important metadata required by community monitoring and analytics options
– Brocade Visibility Manager: A single-pane-of-glass administration utility for the complete Brocade Network Visibility resolution
– Open APIs: Application programming interfaces between Brocade and third-party elements to assist guarantee freedom of alternative at every layer of the visibility infrastructure
This mixed resolution transforms the cell operator visibility infrastructure to unlock new ranges of agility and selection. The software-driven strategy additionally delivers real-time programmability of the packet brokers, and a dynamic, scale-out structure that helps an unprecedented 100 million subscribers per packet core.
“Through the Brocade Network Visibility product family, Brocade is now empowering mobile network operators to optimize their visibility and analytics environments in ways they were unable to before,” mentioned Jason Nolet, senior vp, Switching, Routing, and Analytics Products Group, Brocade. “The network visibility approach we deliver alleviates the challenges of operating a diverse visibility environment, and brings a software-enabled infrastructure and open architecture to the forefront of mobile operator visibility networks.”
To speed up adoption and foster innovation in community visibility and analytics options, Brocade is constructing a various accomplice ecosystem. Launching with Viavi Solutions, EMC, Guavus, and Avvasi, the Brocade Network Visibility accomplice ecosystem goals to supply higher alternative and worth for cell operators by best-in-class options and third-party interoperability at each layer of the visibility infrastructure.
Product Features and Benefits
– Software-enabled
— A scale-out, dynamic structure supporting as much as 100 million subscribers per packet core
— Real-time programmability of community packet brokers to optimize site visitors despatched to probes and analytics functions
— SDN programmability of the packet community to affect community habits based mostly on improved visibility and analytics
— Virtual packet brokers and digital packet probes to ship capability on demand
— Single-pane-of-glass administration throughout bodily and digital visibility infrastructures
– Open
— Open APIs at every layer of the visibility infrastructure to assist multivendor deployments
— A accomplice ecosystem to speed up innovation, ship best-in-class options, and assist guarantee third-party interoperability
Supporting Quotes
“Interoperability between the ecosystem of software-based solutions, multi-probe vendors and analytic options, enable customers with choice to deploy best-of-breed network visibility and analytics. EMC Real Time Intelligence product suite is focused on helping telecom operators successfully build and deploy network analytics solutions with the performance, reliability and capabilities they need to make real-time decisions in their ever-demanding environments. We are excited to collaborate with Brocade to enable one of the first truly open and scalable network visibility solutions using Brocade Packet Brokers, Brocade Virtual Packet Brokers and Brocade Virtual Probes.” – David Hudson, General Manager, Telecom Transformation Business, EMC Corporation
“With video traffic already accounting for over half of all Internet traffic, Avvasi’s comprehensive video traffic measurement solution, Q-Vue, which is centered on subscriber QoE, is a natural fit within the Brocade Network Visibility portfolio. We are always looking to extend our leadership in streaming video analytics. For example, we recently introduced advanced machine-learning capabilities for measuring encrypted video QoE. Avvasi’s partnership with Brocade is another example. Using Q-Vue’s rich data and real-time programmability of the network packet broker infrastructure, we are enabling exciting new video analytics use cases for mobile network operators.” – Mate Prgin, President and CEO, Avvasi
“As networks become virtualized and software-defined networking become more prevalent, analytics will be the lynchpin that both proactively assures the performance of virtualized services as well as dynamically triggers intelligent orchestration into software defined systems. Our big data analytics applications integrated with Brocade’s Network Visibility platform will provide service providers and enterprises with an accelerated time to market for deploying smart programmable networks that deliver differentiated services, while improving operating efficiencies.” – Anukool Lakhina, CEO and Founder, Guavus
“To ensure a high level of customer satisfaction, mobile operators today need to actively monitor the network using visibility and analytics solutions. Through our participation in Brocade’s partner ecosystem with Viavi’s xSIGHT Customer Experience Assurance solution, we will enable mobile operators to dynamically optimize the visibility of networks in real time to respond to the needs of subscribers, applications, devices, and roamers-a critical requirement in today’s increasingly demanding mobile environment. This approach to proactively identify and resolve problems will ensure all mobile users on 2G, 3G, 4G/LTE and future 5G mobile networks continue to enjoy the highest quality subscriber experience at all times.” – Richard Piasentin, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Network Visibility and Control, Viavi Solutions
“Mobile operators are in a unique position to effectively reduce business and technology friction in the mobile Internet ecosystem value chain that spans across multiple industry verticals. Furthermore, mobile network infrastructure driven by 4G/LTE and beyond is a critical lynchpin serving a rapidly growing mobile-first consumer behavior that relies on the smartphone for not just mobile services but almost all other lifestyle needs. In an effort to gain competitive differentiation, mobile operators will seek architectural solutions that leverage the power of NFV and SDN principles in tandem with intelligent analytics frameworks, while addressing the key challenges of scale, cost, and performance.” – Sathya Atreyam, Research Manager, Mobile Network Infrastructure, IDC
Price and Availability
– Brocade MLXe Packet Brokers are priced beginning at $250,000 and can be found at present
– Brocade ICX Packet Brokers are priced beginning at $33,000 and can be found at present
– Brocade Session Director is priced beginning at $300,000 and is on the market at present
– Brocade Visibility Manager is priced beginning at $50,000 and is on the market at present
Additional Resources
– Brocade Network Visibility and Analytics
– Brocade Network Visibility Platform
– Blog: The History and Evolution of Packet Brokers for the Network
– Blog: When IP Packets Need Their Own Broker
About Brocade
Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD) networking options assist the world’s main organizations transition easily to a world the place functions and data reside anyplace. (www.brocade.com)
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