MOUNTAIN VIEW, California,
Nov. 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/
-- Nuage Networks, the Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and
NYSE: ALU) venture focused on software-defined networking (SDN)
solutions, announced today that CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) has
selected its technology to provide networking functionality for
CenturyLink's Programmable Services Backbone (PSB) network
architecture.
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PSB is an open, software-enabled platform for delivering
dedicated services based on NFV technology to CenturyLink's
enterprise and small and mid-sized business (SMB) customers at any
time regardless of their location. It places applications and
services close to the network edge so they can be deployed,
modified and scaled rapidly as business demands change. CenturyLink
was one of the first providers to use NFV to deploy firewalls and
content distribution networks. The company recently announced that,
in the coming months, it expects to begin deploying a range of
virtualized data and voice infrastructure services, including
customer premises endpoints.
"By moving virtualized network functions from a hardware
appliance to a pure software environment coordinated by OpenStack
and Nuage Networks, CenturyLink will be able to automate
provisioning with a policy-based approach," Nuage Networks Chief
Executive Officer Sunil Khandekar
said. "It allows CenturyLink to develop, launch and perfect
virtualized network services rapidly."
With the Nuage Networks Virtualized Services Platform (VSP)
overlay, CenturyLink's PSB will deliver:
- Cloud control – VSP unifies or "federates" new
virtualized services with VPN, co-location and existing cloud
services into a single entity that makes the services available
wherever the user is. This foundation provides CenturyLink full
control of the unified cloud as well as the ability to program its
global network from the customer premises to the public cloud.
- Efficient operations – VSP integrates and interoperates
with Open Source cloud platforms to coordinate compute, storage and
networking needs. It also automates network provisioning across the
entire federated cloud. Additionally, Nuage Networks Virtualized
Services Assurance Platform (VSAP) provides CenturyLink the
capability to detect, debug and resolve problems quickly through a
real-time inventory of virtual services, physical connectivity and
the correlation between them.
- Comprehensive, consistent security – VSP's
micro-segmentation capabilities protect against internal and
external security breaches. VSP also addresses key security gaps in
virtual machine and Docker container environments.
"With a focus on our customers, CenturyLink is transforming its
network to offer businesses quick delivery of reliable and
automated services, and is pushing those services where they are
most needed – at the edge of our network," said Aamir Hussain, CenturyLink executive vice
president and chief technology officer. "This fundamental
architectural shift will enable dynamic delivery of scalable
services for customers and provide even more differentiated
services in the future."
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
within and across the datacenter and out to the wide area network
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.
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