At the recent Open Networking Summit 2015 held in California, Huawei released a new Software-defined Networking (SDN) algorithm, Flow Engine 2.0, upgrading from Flow Engine 1.0 that was released last year. The solution is built into SDN controllers to help carriers improve IP+Optical resource efficiency by 40% when compared to conventional methods.
Testing the newly launched Flow Engine 2.0, Huawei claims that the company has achieved a number of performance breakthroughs in IP+Optical synergy, such as batch service provision and global optimization, helping carriers navigate service and traffic management challenges. Huawei said that the Flow Engine 2.0 significantly improves network resource efficiency which is similar to vehicle scheduling efficiency, such as GPS navigation. The Flow Engine 2.0 also seamlessly integrates innovative graph theories, programming decomposition, matrix compression, and other algorithm technologies which navigate IP+Optical layers to allocate resources efficiently across all elements of the solution, added Huawei.
