CIENA the network specialist, has announced its Agility software portfolio. Including a multilayer SDN controller for the WAN and a set of three new software applications. Agility enables the delivery of virtualized network services and functions. It uses real-time analytics to help network operators provision multi-vendor networks, ensure resiliency and rapidly create and deploy new, differentiated virtualized services at lower cost.
Ciena’s csoftware portfolio is built using the OpenDaylight framework. Agility also enables the network to predict and respond to changing demands from high-bandwidth services and applications.
The new network applications lay the foundation for multilayer SDN control, allowing Equinix to create and provision high-speed connections with greater agility and lower costs.
Eric Hanselman, Chief Analyst, 451 Research said: “Demands for greater service agility and efficiency are driving network operators to look for ways to remove network cost and complexity. An open platform that virtualizes network resources and provides software defined control, like Ciena's Agility software portfolio, can provide operators with an extensible foundation on which to build revenue-generating on-demand cloud and network functions.”