Nokia announced it has been selected by Vodafone to be a global supplier of software-defined networking (SDN). Nuage Networks will be the supplier of SDN for the data centre. As part of the selection, a VPN+ live pilot project with Vodafone is also underway, which will demonstrate the benefits of SD-WAN in providing leading-edge NFV and IoT applications.
The Nuage Networks Virtualized Service Platform (VSP), which Vodafone will use, is the only network
The policy-based automation provided by VSP, across data centre, WAN sites and public cloud providers delivers ease of connectivity across network offerings, such as MPLS VPN and hybrid WAN services as well as hosted cloud services, by leading service providers such as Vodafone and other large cloud providers.
Sunil Khandekar, founder and chief executive officer of Nuage Networks from Nokia, talking to Capacity said: “There is incredible activity within the very largest businesses, they desperately want to overhaul their IT infrastructures completely in line with their businesses. They need to transform themselves, and they need to be able to do it often, fast and easily. What Nuage has delivered is a platform which enables the larger enterprise to fully exploit the benefits of moving to the cloud.”
He continued: "Nokia started the SDN/NFV journey with Vodafone more than three years ago, so we are now honoured to be selected as a partner and to be awarded as a global supplier
