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Ciena Unveils OpenDayLight-Based WAN SDN Controller

Ciena Unveils OpenDayLight-Based WAN SDN Controller

Ciena unveiled this week its Agility software portfolio for the delivery of virtualized, programmable and on-demand network services and functions over the wide area network (WAN). The solution offering that is built on open source based OpenDaylight framework comes with an initial set of three new software applications and includes a multilayer SDN controller for the WAN.

According to Ciena, the solution gives network operators the ability to leverage a mix of open source, self-developed and vendor components from a broad ecosystem and helps them to avoid being locked in to a single vendor. The suite of SDN applications also use advanced real-time analytics to provide greater network assurance, efficiency, monetization and application-driven agility, added Ciena.     

“Our customers want an ecosystem – not an ego-system with one vendor in the center trying to wrest control. Ciena’s approach strongly embraces openness for a true, vendor-neutral ecosystem. With our new Agility software portfolio, we are complementing an industry open framework with high-impact, analytics-based applications to deliver autonomic operations programmability, multilayer optimization and carrier-grade scale and availability within an agile network architecture that is dynamic and responsive to customer needs."

-  Francois Locoh-Donou, Senior Vice President, Global Products Group, Ciena

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