Intel announced at the ongoing NFV World Congress event that Cisco has become part of its NFV ecosystem, joining the Intel Network Builders, a program designed to accelerate deployment of software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) solutions, bringing together leading ecosystem vendors to showcase proven solutions that are ready for implementation in production environments. The program todate has attracted more than 130 other vendors and service provider.
John Healy, General Manager SDN Division said in his blog post that "One of the company’s first Network Builder activities was working with us in a technology demonstration of how its Network Service Header technology, combined with Intel 100GbE, can provide advanced, high-performance intra-data center service chaining".
Both companies are also collaborating to jointly work on enhancing Open vSwitch performance, which is really improving network traffic flows and policy-based capabilities, and helping customers realize more agile and instantaneous virtual network function deployment.
According to John Healy, another area of mutual cooperation is policy-driven networks to help service providers to drive down cost in the network, to expand their service delivery agility and offer the service reliability in terms of service level agreements and QoS that customers have come to trust.
