Nuage Networks says it has conducted 30 successful trials of network virtualization around the world in the past year, and that its initial focus on the data center environment is bringing validation to the much-hyped prospects of software-defined networking.
The Alcatel-Lucent venture was launched one year ago, and the company is affirming customer momentum in adoption of its SDN solution, including its Virtualized Services Platform and a virtualized services gateway. It describes the goal of SDN as the “consolidation and automation of network services,” which is perhaps as good a general definition of SDN as the industry has been able to come up with. An SDN network, Nuage added, “must provide policy-driven connectivity to support applications placed anywhere in the infrastructure, and be instantaneously reachable by users.”
