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Freescale Unveils White-Box SDN Switching Platform Supporting OpenFlow, OpenStack & OpenDaylight

Freescale Unveils White-Box SDN Switching Platform Supporting OpenFlow, OpenStack & OpenDaylight Image Credit: Freescale

Freescale Semiconductor, Wednesday introduced a new network services switching platform that promises manageability, flexibility and security required for the software-defined networking (SDN) era to help enterprises, network operators and their OEM suppliers fully leverage the advantages of the world’s increasingly virtualized networks.

Delivered as a white box solution, Freescale’s new platform leverages Freescale’s 24-core, server-class QorIQ T4240 processor and VortiQa Open Network software. The platform utilizes standards-based protocols such as OpenFlow, and supports manageability through open technologies such as OpenStack and OpenDaylight. It also enables exceptional network security for virtualized environments by supporting the integration of high performance packet processing functions such as firewalling, intrusion detection and IPSEC over VxLAN.In addition to these, it also includes VNF support, commercial grade VortiQa SDN software supporting OpenFlow version 1.3 with extensions for Layer 4 and above protocols, and Layer 2/3 forwarding.

John Muller, VP of Sales & Marketing, Advantech Networks and Communications Group
The Freescale network services switching platform further expands Advantech’s switching product portfolio for equipment manufacturers, integrators and service providers. When combined with VortiQa Open Network switch software, Enterprise IT and cloud service providers will be able to drive greater flexibility and efficiency into their software defined infrastructure to support the increasing demand for new and innovative services.

Sam Fuller, Head of Strategy & Solutions, Freescale Digital Networking Group
In recent years, the world’s networks have undergone a dramatic transformation. Enterprises, network carriers and their equipment suppliers need a new generation of switching technology for this new era,” said . “Freescale’s intelligent switching platform helps OEMs and their customers unleash the full value of SDN, while saving power and cost by eliminating the need for additional appliances commonly required in traditional switching implementations

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