Network orchestration startup, Sedona Systems announced that it has closed its $13.6M round B of funding, led by Intel Capital, bringing the total amount invested in the company to $19.6M. The startup claims that it has created the market’s first IP/optical converged control platform for service provider networks.
The fresh investment comes as Sedona accelerates its global sales to leading service providers, and also to serve the ongoing R&D activities to broaden the company’s product portfolio.
Sedona said that it solves problems that arise from existing network architectures that rigidly split between the optical transport layer and the logical IP layer. The two layers, which are typically managed by different teams within the service provider organization, are barely coordinated, resulting in major inefficiencies, low utilization and suboptimal protection.
Sedona’s software platform, NetFusion, enables coordinated control of the two layers, effectively making them work as one. It connects to the equipment of all vendors in both layers, and automatically creates a unique and live map of all traffic paths and cross-connections. Following this unique network discovery process, multilayer apps are executed over the platform for tasks ranging from coordinated maintenance to automatic optimization, from network restoration to enabling broadband services on demand.
Sedona claims that with the solution, service providers can run their networks “hotter” and save up to 50% of their expansion capex.
Yossi Wellingstein, Sedona’s CEO
Software and virtualization have become crucial tools in facing the tidal wave of demand for network services. Sedona helps service providers rise to the challenge by using software to fuse the hitherto separate optical and IP layers into one agile and flexible network.
John Healy, general manager of Intel’s Software Defined Networking Division
As networks become more software-centric, converging management and control for multilayer transport functions becomes key to drive OPEX and CAPEX efficiencies.
