At the recent Open Networking Summit 2015 held in Silicon Valley, Huawei launched nine Software-defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) solutions, focusing on innovative agile networks, open northbound, and cloud-based infrastructure.
Huawei presented three innovative agile network solutions enabling fast and flexible operator services, namely the Flow Engine 2.0, ONOS-based IP+optical synergy, and open source on-demand bandwidth adjustment for optical transport networks. Huawei claims that the new carrier-class SDN Flow Engine 2.0 will be able to improve resource utilization by between 40% and 100%.
Huawei released four new solutions on the open northbound interface, including the Open Network Hypervisor, NEMO, a user-oriented, next-generation SDN programming language solution, an Open Source TSDN controller which supports various service APPs; and an IP+optical synergy for multi-vendor SDN controllers based on third-party orchestrators.
Huawei also launched two new cloud-based infrastructure products. The first, developed in partnership with China Unicom, is the agile VPN solution, L3VPN, which uses standard northbound and southbound APIs provided by an ONOS-based SDN controller platform to support VPN site additions or deletion, on-demand bandwidth adjustment and fast deployment. The second, the ONOS-based Central Office solution, provides L3VPNs using vCPE+ONOS, with services provided by the NetMatrix orchestrator.
