Cloud Computing: Glue Networks aims SDN technology at Cisco WANs
April 12, 2013
Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Jim Duffy.
SDNs aren’t just for data center networks, despite the best-use-case-scenario arguments for network virtualization and flow management pervading the industry. SDNs can automate and manage WAN operations as well. Google is using OpenFlow to interconnect data center over a WAN. And startup Glue Networks is targeting Cisco’s installed base of WAN routers as a sweet spot for its SDN WAN offerings.
Major IT trends such as SaaS, private clouds, BYOD, mobility and voice/data convergence are stressing the quality of links in an enterprise WAN, as analyst Lee Doyle notes here. WAN links now require improved security, lower latency, higher reliability and support for any device in any location to accommodate these trends…
SDN can help enterprise IT accomplish this without the expense of upgrading individual WAN links, Doyle notes. The technology can allow for prioritization of key applications and traffic types, ease provisioning for new sites, new applications, and changed traffic priorities, enhance security and more tightly link WAN service to specific applications…
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