Allot Communications teams with MRV Communications, a global provider of innovative packet and optical solutions to showcase a proof of concept demonstration (PoC) on an SDN-enabled virtual Customer Premises Equipment (vCPE) solution at the on-going Layer 123 SDN & OpenFlow World Congress on October 14-17, 2014 in Düsseldorf, Germany.
The solution that was initiated and validated in Orange Labs will enable service providers to have applications awareness on their access networks.
According to a statement by Allot, both the companies partnered to respond to Orange's needs by introducing an innovative solution for delivering application awareness at the access network. The solution combines a centralized traffic detection function (TDF), programmable business customer premises equipment (CPE) and an OpenDayLight SDN controller to enable per-application priority and dedicated bandwidth control and enforcement.
An application-aware SDN approach provides greater business, technological and operational benefits when compared to traditional service concepts,”“It improves service delivery and consistency and enables immediate activation of services without any truck roll or forklift upgrade at the customer premises. As part of our ongoing Orange Lab research on SDN application-aware solutions, we are aiming to reduce time-to-market for new services, cut operational costs and provide a better user-experience to our business customers.
- Sylvain Desbureaux, Network Expert, Head of Anticipation Projects at Orange
Allot is the first to introduce a virtual Traffic Detection Function enabling application-aware SLA management at the customer premises and network edges via SDN,” This PoC proves that Allot, together with partners like MRV, can help service providers improve service delivery and consistency, cut operational costs, reduce time to market and monetize the benefits NFV and SDN bring. MRV continues to develop innovative solutions that address the real-world challenges of our customers.
- Jay Klein, CTO at Allot Communications
