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Brocade drives physical and virtual networking advancements with OpenStack contributions

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Harmeet
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DUBAI, UAE: During this week's OpenStack Summit in Hong Kong, Brocade will discuss and demonstrate its blueprint proposal to extend the advanced networking capabilities of the OpenStack Networking framework, Neutron.

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The Dynamic Network Resource Manager (DNRM) blueprint is intended to simplify the deployment and management of physical and virtual networking resources within cloud infrastructures.

Public and private clouds are evolving beyond homogeneous, pooled resources as organizations seek to deliver improved efficiency and choice through multivendor support. By leveraging a native, heterogeneous approach delivered by DNRM, OpenStack cloud environments can address the needs of specific applications or services.

Highlights of the Brocade DNRM proposal include:

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* Policy-based management of physical and virtual network resources from multiple vendors that will allow OpenStack Neutron to deliver operational efficiency and flexibility for Layers 3-7 of the network.

* Four primary components - Supervisor, Interceptor, Plugins and Appliance Container - and several supporting elements, such as a management dashboard.

* Support for emerging technologies, such as Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).

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* Continued work with partners of the OpenStack community to deliver DNRM capabilities as part of the Spring 2014 OpenStack release, codenamed "IceHouse".

* A proof-of-concept implementation of DNRM that will be demonstrated at the OpenStack Summit

Brocade is also updating several other OpenStack contributions in its continued drive toward open networking solutions.