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Australian Wholesale Data Provider Virtutel Selects Brocade SDN-Ready Switches & Routers

Australian Wholesale Data Provider Virtutel Selects Brocade SDN-Ready Switches & Routers Image Credit: Brocade

Virtutel, a wholesale data and voice service provider to the Australian telecom market has selected BROCADE SDN-Ready Switches and Routers to deliver its services through system integrators, IT consultants, and managed service providers. The Virtutel Network provides private network, Internet, colocation, and voice services for business, enterprise, and government segments as part of its "Global Network" strategy.

The company services Asia from its Singapore presence and North America and Europe via its United States presence. 

According to Brocade, across-the-board support for the OpenFlow 1.3 Software-Defined Networking (SDN) protocol was a key element in Virtutel's decision to migrate its solutions. Virtutel is focused on remaining cloud-neutral, enabling customers to host their applications wherever they want, by leveraging OpenFlow's standard-based integration (via an SDN controller) with OpenStack cloud computing platforms. The company is also developing an SDN-enabled network service provisioning portal to enable customers to sign-up and configure networks on the fly.

David Allen, Managing Director, Virtutel Pty Ltd
With ever-greater demand for and dependence on cloud-based applications, we're seeing customers' bandwidth requirements doubling every six months, which is not something we could sustain much longer with our existing infrastructure. At the same time, we need to be much more dynamic in terms of service fulfilment so software-defined networking is the way to go. 

Gary Denman, Senior Director, Australia and New Zealand, Brocade
IT used to be the drivers of corporate innovation and value, and every IT department wants to meet the changing and growing needs of users. They want to deliver a platform for fast innovation on which to build a competitive digital business, just as the cloud providers do today. The same aspiration holds true for traditional service providers. Unfortunately, the reliance on legacy network architectures makes this difficult. Many even say that the old architecture is what is holding them back.

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