Verizon, working carefully with a lot of its key expertise companions – Alcatel Lucent, Cisco, Ericsson, Juniper Networks and Nokia – introduced immediately it’s remodeling its community by implementing a software program outlined community structure, laying the groundwork for brand spanking new progressive providers and purposes. This SDN-based structure is designed to introduce new operational efficiencies and permit for the enablement of speedy and versatile service supply to Verizon’s clients. SDN is a brand new method to designing, constructing and managing communications networks.
SDN permits community programmability by leveraging a centralized controller and orchestrator to program community flows. This centralized community management will drive a lot of key buyer going through advantages, together with:
– Elastic, scalable, network-wide service creation and close to real-time service supply.
– Operational agility through dynamic useful resource allocation and administration, and automation of community operations.
Verizon has a protracted historical past of driving vital expertise shifts with help from its expertise suppliers. Verizon was the primary main service to deploy a large-scale fiber-to-the-home technique; the primary to launch a nationwide 3G community; and the primary nationwide service to broadly deploy LTE. Today’s announcement highlights Verizon’s ongoing efforts to alter the best way it designs, develops and manages its networks.
To allow its community imaginative and prescient, Verizon and its expertise distributors have co-authored a complete SDN Network Architecture doc, which incorporates all interface specs and reference architectures plus necessities for each management layer and forwarding field features. This community structure doc will allow Verizon’s key expertise companions to develop options to attain the enterprise and technical advantages of an SDN-enabled community.
Much of the foundational work required to ship on Verizon’s next-generation community has been underway for a number of years. Verizon has created reside lab environments in San Jose, California; Tampa, Florida; and Waltham, Massachusetts, and has business knowledge heart environments on each the East and West Coasts.
Following are quotes from Verizon and its main SDN expertise companions:
“Verizon and its key technology partners have always focused on providing high-performance networks for our customers, and with SDN architecture we will continue to ensure our network and services meet the needs of our customers, today and in the future.”
– Roger Gurnani, Verizon chief data officer and expertise architect
“Verizon shares our vision of a future network that provides seemingly limitless capacity and is able to instantly adapt to the needs of businesses and consumers. We know this can be possible with virtualization, SDN technology and the ability to tap into the power of a strong, tightly paired IP and optical backbone network capable of handling people’s insatiable appetite to connect, share and consume content.”
– Marcus Weldon, Alcatel-Lucent president of Bell Labs and chief expertise officer
“Verizon and Cisco have a long-standing technology and business relationship, and we are pleased to play a key role in Verizon’s next-generation, software-defined network architecture. This will become the foundation for innovative, new Verizon services and applications. Both companies share a vision to transform the entirety of the network architecture to achieve the speed and operational efficiency required to meet the needs of today, as well as capture the growth opportunities to monetize with the Internet of Everything over the next decade and beyond.”
– John Chambers, Cisco chairman and chief govt officer
“We look forward to joining forces with Verizon in defining the industry shift towards SDN-based network architecture. Our joint efforts started in 2009, with the successful large scale introduction of LTE. We are now ready to leverage Ericsson’s strength in software and services to provide a robust network transformation that will benefit Verizon and its customers.”
– Ulf Ewaldsson, Ericsson chief expertise officer
“Juniper is pleased to continue its long-standing collaboration with Verizon. We share a common vision for agile, automated and accelerated service creation enabled by SDN. Network innovation is fundamental to deploying highly scalable, secure and efficient cloud environments that adapt in real time. As a leader in high-performance networking, Juniper will team up with Verizon to deploy their SDN initiative to serve their customers’ ever-changing needs.”
– Rami Rahim, Juniper Networks chief govt officer
“Cloud technologies hold the promise for true innovation in our industry. We are pleased to extend our strong relationship with Verizon beyond core software, rich communication technologies and services into the exciting area of software defined network solutions for the next generation of their intelligent, connected network.”
– Rajeev Suri, Nokia president and chief govt officer
About Verizon Communications
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ), headquartered in New York, is a world chief in delivering broadband and different wi-fi and wireline communications providers to client, enterprise, authorities and wholesale clients. Verizon Wireless operates Americas most dependable wi-fi community, with 108.6 million retail connections nationwide. Verizon additionally gives converged communications, data and leisure providers over Americas most superior fiber-optic community, and delivers built-in enterprise options to clients worldwide. A Dow 30 firm with greater than $127 billion in 2014 revenues, Verizon employs a various workforce of 176,200. For extra data, go to www.verizon.com/information
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About Juniper Networks

Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR) delivers innovation throughout routing, switching and safety. From the community core all the way down to client gadgets, Juniper Networks’ improvements in software program, silicon and methods remodel the expertise and economics of networking. Additional data could be discovered at Juniper Networks (www.juniper.web) or join with Juniper on Twitter andFacebook.
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