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  • Infinera brings SDN to optical and packet networks

    Optical switching and transmission system manufacturer, Infinera, has released a suite of software that adds software defined networking functionality to networks built with its equipment, enabling networks to be created on-demand at the level of individual optical wavelengths and up to Layer 3.

  • Hyperscale networking vendor Big Switch launches in Australia

    Big Switch Networks — a US startup that develops software-defined networking technology for data centres that bills itself as a “disruptor of traditional Ethernet switching” — has formally launched its operations in Australia and named Mario Vecchio as managing director of Asia Pacific, based in Melbourne.

  • Preparing for the future with software-defined networking

    With video conferencing, dynamic cloud workloads and unified communications, network traffic is growing at an astonishing rate. Data traffic on the AT&T wireless network grew more than 150,000 per cent between 2007 and 2015 and this is only the beginning.

  • Software-defined solutions for a network defined by complexity

    Those of us who have been in enterprise IT for a while would remember a simpler time. A time when IT assets were limited to a handful of data centres, where users and applications were all bound by one unified MPLS network and where external access was limited to a centralised Internet gateway.

  • Telcos turn to OpenStack for network virtualization

    OpenStack — a collection of open source software projects that allow users to develop and manage a cloud infrastructure in a data centre — has emerged as a key technology underpinning the push by telcos to virtualize their networks.

  • Deakin University gets Cisco DNA

    Cisco has revealed Deakin University as one of the first customers globally for the Cisco Digital Network Architecture (DNA), the networking company’s application of software-defined networking and network functions virtualization for the enterprise, announced at its partner summit in San Diego on 2 March.

  • Telstra launches ‘transformative’ SDN/NFV service

    Telstra, using technology from Cisco, has launched a service based on software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) technology that will enable business and enterprise customers to set up bandwidth on demand between data centres, their own premises and into public cloud services, as well as provision virtual network appliances such as firewalls.

  • Global Cloud Xchange launches Cloud X SDN in Australia

    Global Cloud Xchange, a subsidiary of India’s Reliance Communications, has ramped up competition in wide area software defined networking services in Australia and New Zealand with the launch of its Cloud X service, to be delivered from new PoPs in Sydney, Perth, Melbourne and Auckland.

  • VirtuTel eyes SDN to build self-service network

    VirtuTel is harnessing OpenFlow to build an online portal that will allow its customers to order services and then have them automatically provisioned from within the wholesaler's network.

  • Fastrack goes virtual for networking

    Network function virtualization (NFV), particularly in the form of virtual routers, has played a key role in underpinning the cloud services delivered by Sydney-headquartered Fastrack Technology, according to the company's commercial director, Nathan Nogic.

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