SK Telecom, Korea's largest telecommunications company has selected IP Infusion's OcNOS network operating system to support their open networking strategy to deliver enterprise and carrier-grade data center solutions. SK Telecom aims to reduce network costs, increase flexibility, and deploy new features and services by creating a virtual/physical solution with one operating system to manage both physical and virtual requirements.
SK Telecom via the solution will be creating a converged network appliance (i.e. T-CAP) combining together a high performance server and a data center scale switch to build modular data center solutions for services at the edge, to serve VNF and mobile computing needs, says Ip Infusion.
According to IP Infusion, OcNOS is optimized for both physical and virtual environments, with extensive support for IP/MPLS routing, OpenFlow support, switching and security.
Dr. Lee Kang-won, senior vice president of R&D at SK Telecom
With IP Infusion’s field-proven networking stacks built upon its time-tested networking platform and SDN feature support, the solution will provide faster deployments, reduce operational complexity, and provide greater business agility to our customers.
Kiyo Oishi, CEO and president of IP Infusion
SK Telecom joins our growing list of customers of all sizes who are taking advantage of how IP Infusion’s OcNOS bundled with the hardware of their choice allows them to keep pace with their evolving high performance network needs and to reduce their time to deploy new services, while lowering costs for Enterprise network operations with a modular, disaggregated network operating system.
