[1]Intelligent broadband network solutions provider for fixed and mobile operators Sandvine [2] has announced that it will demonstrate a completely virtualized Network Policy Control system in an OpenStack framework at SDN & OpenFlow World Congress [3] in Frankfurt, Germany. Sandvine is the first Network Policy Control provider to demonstrate this technology.
Sandvine’s commitment to Software-Defined Networking (SDN) was first announced in May when it published whitepaper with Heavy Reading entitled “Policy Control & SDN: A Perfect Match? [4]” Since, Sandvine has furthered its SDN strategy by becoming an SDN Technology Partner [5] with Juniper Networks [6] Contrail product and ongoing work to integrate Sandvine’s policy engine [7] with Dell’s [8] PowerEdge Blade platform.
“Sandvine has a demonstrable SDN & Network Functions Virtualization strategy for its platform. We have foreseen the need and committed to the delivery of application- and subscriber-aware feature sets in a Software-Defined Network, including Network Services Chaining. We see SDN as a means of continuing our innovation leadership into the next realm of policy control: virtualization,” said Don Bowman, Chief Technology Officer, Sandvine.
Sandvine will be leading a discussion on Extending SDN for subscriber-based service chaining [9] at SDN & OpenFlow World Congress on Thursday, October 17th.
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#1 Comment By Tami Quiring (@VillageGamer) On Wednesday October 9, 2013 @ 4:46 am
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