Huawei, China Unicom sign pact on SDN

Staff writer
06 Aug 2014
00:00

China Unicom and Huawei have formally signed a strategic cooperation agreement on software-defined networking (SDN) joint innovation.

In a joint statement, China Unicom Cloud Data Company and Huawei said that the agreement will foster “extensive cooperation conducted in the field of SDN in the future.”

China Unicom Cloud Data Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of China Unicom.

Within the framework of the agreement, Huawei and China Unicom Cloud Data Company will jointly develop SDN controllers, and deploy SDN-based innovative solutions in China Unicom data center base networks.


Both sides will collaborate on developing and innovating on key technologies to provide next-generation cloud services based on SDN, fully supporting the implementation of China Unicom’s cloud strategy.

The strategic cooperation aims to explore SDN technology values for scale virtual tenant access, virtual machine on-demand deployment and migration, network centralized management, energy saving, and data center capability openness to further enhance China Unicom’s cloud service competence, the firms said.

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