Nuage Networks claimed it has addressed a major constraint to the adoption of software-defined networking (SDN) technologies: visibility between physical and virtualized networking layers.
The Virtualized Services Assurance Platform (VSAP) “addresses the need for deeper visibility and correlation between the virtual networks for applications and workloads (the “overlay”) and the physical connectivity provided by the datacenter network infrastructure (“the underlay”)”, the company announced in conjunction with the Open Networking User’s Group (ONUG) Spring 2015 conference at Columbia University in New York.
The solution gives
The Nuage Networks VSAP, which is a new modular element that can be incorporated into the Virtualized Services Platform (VSP), gives enterprises more freedom in their choice of open infrastructure technologies.
Previously, it said, SDN-based cloud deployments have been forced to compromise on openness in order to achieve full network operational visibility.
“With rapid advances in adoption of virtual networking in support of open private and hybrid clouds over the past year, and with the associated growth and expansion of networks, the time has come to address the operational requirements for coordinating overlay connectivity and network services with the open array of underlay choices that are being deployed,” the company said.
The Nuage Networks VSAP addresses the correlation between policy-based overlay networks while preserving an enterprise’s freedom of choice in the underlying network hardware. It provides timely visibility for fault isolation, service management, and inventory management.
To do so, the VSAP uses open protocols to discover and maintain topologies, and aggregates virtual and physical topologies to correlate services, analyze faults and facilitate remediation actions.
Unlike other approaches that are tied to specific hardware, the underlying intra and inter-datacenter infrastructure can consist of any networking equipment that supports standard protocols (e.g. OSPF, BGP, ISIS, SNMP).
This provides enterprises building or expanding their open cloud the freedom of choice across all key elements of their infrastructure while delivering the service assurance and visibility that is critical to the operation of their cloud-based network services and the timely and secure delivery of applications to their workgroups.