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Brocade, NEC to drive SDN adoption

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BANGALORE, INDIA: Networking company Brocade announced that it has partnered with NEC Corporation of America (NEC) to bring solutions around Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and OpenFlow switching, including network virtualization.

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Brocade and NEC will together market solutions for network virtualization, large-scale data centre infrastructure management, traffic engineering and wide area network (WAN) flow management, with an open standards-based approach.

“The combined NEC and Brocade SDN solutions will give customers the ability to design, deploy, monitor and manage secure, multi-tenant networks from a single point of control,” said Mitsuhiro Murooka, vice president, NEC Enterprise Technologies IT. “Brocade and NEC customers will be able to achieve greater service agility, granular traffic control and significant productivity gains by adopting a software-defined network architecture.”

The new solutions will be built around Brocade’s OpenFlow-enabled products and NEC’s Programmable Flow Controller.

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The companies will establish joint solution labs in key regional offices to test and demonstrate their solutions.

The current Brocade and NEC OpenFlow-enabled products have completed interoperability testing in 2011.

Brocade and NEC are collaborating on technology and implementation alignment, including OpenFlow standards, tunnel technology and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).

“SDN enables network operators to rapidly deploy innovative services and access powerful analytics through programmatic control, unlocking the intelligence of their data center and wide area networks,” said Ken Cheng, vice president and general manager, service provider business, Brocade. “Our collaboration with NEC ensures we deliver high-value solutions that can be seamlessly deployed in our customers’ networks to realize the benefit of SDN.”

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