Nuage Networks and Telefonica Business Solutions, Thursday announced the successful completion of service chaining prove of concept(POC) testing that leverages virtualized network functions (NFV) in a multi-vendor SDN environment. This POC will help Telefonica Business Solutions in automating delivery of value-added services and dramatically improving time to market in serving its enterprise customers.
Service chaining makes it possible to automatically insert physical or virtual network service appliances with the appropriate configurations and policies as part of cloud-based offerings. Nuage Networks automates the complex networking and service insertion processes to enable Telefonica Business Solutions to adapt cloud services on demand.
Both companies executed the proof of concept evaluation with Nuage Networks Virtualized Services Platform (VSP) working with Alcatel-Lucent's 7750 Service Router (SR) and Virtualized Service Router.
The companies also demonstrated seamless integration with Telefonica's existing third-party IP Edge Routing platforms in the roles of Datacenter Gateway and Datacenter Provider Edge, including integration between the automated value-added applications in the Datacenter and WAN connectivity services.
According to Nuage Networks, its VSP provides the automated overlay networking for Telefonica's existing VMware virtualization environment as well as a test environment based on OpenStack® and the open source Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor. The solution includes a service chaining portal to allow fully automated instantiation of virtual machines through OpenStack and third-party APIs. The customer service portal also integrated Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF) provisioning of third-party datacenter gateways and provider edge and virtual machines to enable and disable services based on input from customers.
