ipoque, a Rohde & Schwarz company, announced it has joined Alcatel-Lucent’s Cloudband Ecosystem Program, a community of 60+ like-minded NFV innovators accelerating the reality of network functions virtualization (NFV). With the agreement, ipoque said that it will contribute its R&S PACE protocol and application classification engine to the program, an OEM software for application-awareness, designed to run in virtual environments with no loss of performance.
Network infrastructure vendors around the world embed R&S PACE in their physical and virtual appliances, software and cloud solutions, such as gateways, firewalls or WiFi access points wherever intelligent decisions based on the nature of the traffic need to be made in the network, whether to offload video, realize Service Function Chaining, cache content or ensure security by blocking viruses or malware.
According to ipoque, running R&S PACE in a NFV environment on a generic server lowers the entry cost, enabling application awareness to be more accessible than before.
Reik Hesselbarth, Chief Operating Officer at ipoque
We are excited about the partnership with Alcatel-Lucent and to become part of the Cloudband ecosystem because it puts us at the heart of this vital development in network architecture and enables us to accelerate our program to virtualize the world of IP classification and traffic analysis.
Valerie Noto, Director of Alcatel-Lucent’s CloudBand Ecosystem
ipoque’s entry into the Cloudband ecosystem brings application awareness technology that is proven to increase the capabilities and agility of NFV and we look forward to close collaboration as we accelerate the reality of NFV and broaden the choices for our customers.
