Huawei, PESIT to innovate in network optimization for SDN

BANGALORE, INDIA: Huawei, information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider, today announced the collaboration between Huawei's Indian R&D Center and People's Education Society Institute of Technology, in the areas of cloud-based data center & network optimization for software defined networks (SDN).

Nagaraja Upadhya, VP of Network product line, Huawei, said: "Applications such as cloud computing, video gaming, HD video streaming, live concerts, remote medical surgery, etc are offered by data centers. These geographically dispersed data center (cloud balancing) is creating new demands on the network. As more and more organizations move towards cloud, there is a need for communication and joint optimization of network and data centre application IT resources."

"Cross stratum application/network optimization focuses on the challenges and opportunities presented by both data center based applications and carrier networks optimization. Software defined network (SDN) aims to improve and optimize the network behavior and performance by controlling the network devices using a centralized controller across multiple technologies, thereby simplifying the overall network, added Upadhya.

Huawei and PESIT are closely working in this area to innovate and resolve key problems in data center and network cross optimization by enhancing application layer traffic optimization (ALTO) and path computation element (PCE) as an evolutionary approach to SDN.

Dr. KNB Murthy, principal and director, PESIT, said, "PESIT is very happy to collaborate with Huawei in this initiative. This is recognition of our competence as one of the best technical engineering institutions in the country and provides a great opportunity for our students to work on tomorrow's Telecommunication technology."

"This is yet another example of our strong Industry collaboration that is so essential to drive a culture of innovation and research on our campuses," he added.

Wilson Wang, COO, of Huawei's India R&D Centre said, "Huawei partners with universities and colleges around the world to transfer knowledge, promote a greater understanding of, and interest in the telecommunications sector and encourage participation in the digital community."

"Our research collaboration with PESIT is one among the several collaborative programmes Huawei has initiated in India in recent years. We are fully committed to the Indian Government's strategic vision aimed at developing the telecom Industry ecosystem under the National Telecom Policy 2012."