Cloud Computing: Cisco, Extreme, Big Switch Form SDN Partnerships
September 11, 2015
Grazed from VirtualizationReview. Author: David Ramel.
Software-defined networking (SDN) players continue to form partnerships while jockeying for position amid the sea-wave change to virtualized networking. Making moves this week were Cisco Systems Inc., Extreme Networks Inc. and Big Switch Networks Inc.
Cisco made the most noise, as Verizon Communications Inc. announced Tuesday that it was the first major service provider to offer Cisco SDN technology, in the form of its Managed Software Defined Wide Area Network (Managed SD-WAN. The service leverages Cisco’s Intelligent WAN, based on Cisco’s counterpart offering to upstart SDN products, called Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC)…
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