NEC Corporation has launched its SDN Partner Space – a new multi-vendor SDN partnership program and an innovation portal to enhance the development and adoption of open, best-in-breed SDN-based network solutions. The NEC SDN Partner Space incorporates a full range of documentation, reference code, API specification, SDK and walkthrough materials to enable an easy and fast adaptation of network applications to the OpenFlow standard.
The company also provides open interfaces for both northbound and southbound APIs to its NEC's ProgrammableFlow Controller.
According to NEC, virtual network application vendors can access simple guidelines to ensure their solution is compatible with NEC's ProgrammableFlowR Technology by joining NEC SDN Partner Space and completing a partner certification process.
NEC boosts the SDN partner program with membership of major providers, including Dell, HP, Microsoft, Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, Radware, Trend Micro, NoviFlow, Centec, Meru Networks, Ixia, Broadcom, Extreme Networks, RedHat, RedCannon, Aria Networks, H-Log, Abiquo and StackOps.
NEC SDN Partner Space partnership program will strongly contribute to further global expansion of SDN technology, enabling enterprises and data center providers to dynamically deliver value-added services in record deployment time and at reduced operating expense costs.
- Jiro Kitakaze, Deputy General Manager, Solution Platform Business Division, NEC Corporation
As the world's leading provider of open source solutions, Red Hat recognizes the value that openness, transparency and collaboration can bring to software. We are also a Platinum member of the OpenDaylight Project, working to bring those same principles to SDN. It's exciting to see industry initiatives, like the launch of NEC SDN Partner Space, that can help accelerate development and compatibility between the OpenStack cloud ecosystem and virtual networking technologies.
- Chris Wright, technical director, SDN and NFV, Red Hat
