Infinera, Wednesday unveiled the Xceed Software Suite (Xceed), a software automation tool for software defined networking (SDN) to support Infinera’s end-to-end Intelligent Transport Network portfolio spanning long-haul, metro and data center interconnect applications.
Infinera said that the purpose-built platform is available now for selected customer trials and deployments, and planned for general availability in the fourth quarter of 2016.
The new software suite that is based on OpenDaylight source code, including the Xceed Multi-layer SDN Platform and Xceed Applications, is designed to enable service providers to create new revenue streams and reduce operational costs by driving higher network efficiency.
According to Infinera, service providers have begun using SDN within their data centers to automate networking of virtualized devices and functions, but have not yet been able to extend the same SDN automation to the metro and core networks that are foundational to their business.
Meanwhile, traffic patterns in metro and core networks have become increasingly variable and unpredictable. Service providers are challenged to activate bandwidth, reconfigure network resources and adapt to application demand quickly using legacy systems and manual processes.
Art Nichols, Windstream’s Vice President of Network Architecture and Technology
As a strategic vendor, Infinera partners with us to develop pragmatic solutions to meet our customers’ needs. We are actively testing and plan to deploy the Xceed Multi-layer SDN Platform with Dynamic Bandwidth to further our efforts in providing an exceptional customer experience.
David Welch, President and Co-Founder, Infinera
Now with Xceed, our customers have the automation, multi-layer intelligence and programmability to rapidly deliver new, differentiated SDN applications with an open approach. Service providers can now activate and control pre-deployed terabit scale capacity quickly and easily with minimal operational expense.
