VANCOUVER, B.C., May 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Nuage Networks,
the Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) venture and
Arista Networks Inc. (NYSE: ANET) both leaders in software defined
cloud networking announce a key collaboration for customers to
maximize the benefits of open networking as they expand their cloud
infrastructure to address growing IT application demands.
With their respective offerings, Nuage Networks and Arista
Networks have enabled customers to build programmable underlays and
highly automated SDN overlay infrastructure using industry standard
protocols like VxLAN and OVSDB. This collaboration enables a common
framework for network automation that integrates virtualized and
bare metal assets in the data center. The two companies will offer
proven integrated solutions, available immediately. Customers using
OpenStack or any other Cloud Management Systems can readily
leverage the integrated solution over a varied ecosystem of
hypervisors.
"The integration of Arista's VxLAN programmable platforms with
Nuage Virtualized Services Platform (VSP) enables scalable and
automated software defined cloud networks. We are pleased to
collaborate with a leading SDN innovator like Nuage Networks to
deliver seamless workload portability within and across data
centers," said Anshul Sadana, Senior
Vice President, Customer Engineering, Arista Networks.
Customers also face the operational realities of visibility and
correlation between dynamic overlays and the underlying network
infrastructure. Nuage Networks Virtualized Services Assurance
Platform (VSAP) working with Arista EOS ensures that the mapping
and correlation of policies are combined with visibility of the
network infrastructure to deliver timely fault isolation and
remediation.
Sunil Khandekar, CEO of Nuage
Networks added, "At Nuage Networks we are aggressively and
tirelessly pushing for SDN-powered cloud computing to become a
mainstream architecture for high-performance enterprises. Working
closely with programmable platform providers like Arista, we can
now offer customers a powerful best-of-breed solution of
policy-driven SDN overlay and DC underlay for building highly
automated and responsive private and public clouds for all their
applications and workloads."
Nuage Networks continues to work create a truly open cloud
environment for its customers. On May
18, Nuage Networks announced the expansion of the Nuage
Networks ecosystem program , a complete ecosystem for Development
and Operations (DevOps) clouds based on OpenStack.
About Arista Networks
Arista Networks was founded to deliver software-driven cloud
networking solutions for large data center and computing
environments. Arista's award-winning 10/40/100GbE switches redefine
scalability, robustness, and price-performance, with over 3,000
customers and more than three million cloud networking ports
deployed worldwide. At the core of Arista's platform is EOS, an
advanced network operating system. Arista Networks products are
available worldwide through distribution partners, systems
integrators and resellers.
ARISTA, EOS and Spline are among the registered and unregistered
trademarks of Arista Networks, Inc. in jurisdictions around the
world. Other company names or product names may be trademarks of
their respective owners.
About NUaGE
NETWORkS
Nu-âhj: From French,
meaning 'cloud'. Nuage Networks brings a combination of
technologies and networking expertise to the enterprise and
telecommunications industries. The Silicon Valley-based start up
has applied new thinking to the problem of delivering massively
scalable and highly programmable SDN solutions with the security
and availability required by business-critical environments. Nuage
Networks, backed by Alcatel-Lucent's (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU)
rapidly growing IPR&T division, has the pedigree to serve the
needs of the world's biggest clouds. The cloud has made
promises – the mission of Nuage Networks is to help you realize
them.
For more information
visit: www.nuagenetworks.net. Read the latest posts on the Nuage
Networks blog http://www.nuagenetworks.net/blog/ and follow the
company on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nuagenetworks.
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