Network Management
Lanner Electronics | April 07, 2021
Lanner Electronics, the global leader in Whitebox SolutionsTM for Network Communications, Security, and Software-Defined Networking (SDN), today announced its membership in MEF, the world's leading industry forum of network, cloud, and technology providers, to promote the development of Whitebox SolutionsTM for SD-WAN, Open RAN, MEC, and SASE. Lanner plans to provide a wide range of MEF 3.0-certified network appliances that resolve the industry's issues of network disaggregation and ensure smooth interoperation for next-generation 5G communications by working together with over 200 leading global organizations.
The trend of network disaggregation has fueled the digital transition of service providers, beginning with uCPE, SD-WAN, and expanding to MEC and O-RAN. Lanner uCPE Systems have been introduced in businesses, supermarket chains, and distributed branches for over 200,000 devices since 2018. Lanner is the leading hardware solution provider behind major SD-WAN services, providing pre-validated and pre-integrated white box appliances to ease the difficulties in rolling out virtualization services in a multi-vendor orchestration and VNF environment, with several active installation cases in diversified client environments.
MEF 3.0 Global Services Framework represents the most advanced criteria for identifying, delivering and certifying assured digital services that are orchestrated through a global ecosystem of automated networks. MEF's SD-WAN and emerging SASE service requirements and APIs provide an application-centric, policy-driven, high-performance Overlay Digital Service that facilitates a completely orchestrated fabric for service providers delivering modern, revenue-generating digital services to enterprises.
About Lanner Electronics
Lanner Electronics Inc (TAIEX 6245) is a world-leading provider of advanced and customizable SDN and NFV network computing appliances for device integrators, service providers, and application developers. Lanner offers a wide variety of network appliances, including SD-WAN and SD-Security vCPE gateways, as well as NEBS-compliant, NFVi-ready platforms with multiple processors, network I/O blades, and high connectivity capabilities.
About MEF
MEF, a 200-member industry organization, is leading the establishment of a global federation of network, cloud, and technology providers that support dynamic, assured, and certified network services that power enterprise digital transformation. MEF 3.0 solutions are intended to offer a cloud-centric, on-demand experience with user- and application-directed control over network resources and service capabilities.
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Virtualization Review | September 17, 2018
The ninth release of the OpenDaylight software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) platform is out, adding new functionality and marking adoption gains. The platform provides an open source SDN controller for enterprise networking implementations. The platform release -- named Fluorine -- was made by the OpenDaylight Project, part of open source champion The Linux Foundation. The project evolved from the young and growing SDN movement, emphasizing network programmability and positioning itself as a foundational platform for commercial solutions. According to the project, adoption of the platform in those commercial solutions is picking up pace. Citing "ongoing industry momentum," the project noted OpenDaylight is the primary controller platform used by Globo.com, a Brazilian Internet-related services and platform. The project also noted inclusion in other implementations, including Red Hat OpenStack Platform (OSP) version 13. With Fluorine, such implementations are reportedly easier, the project said, simplified by easier packaging to quicken the development of solutions. "Fluorine is one of the most streamlined releases to date for OpenDaylight, delivering a core set of mature components needed for most major use cases in a 'managed release' for easy consumption by commercial and in-house solution providers, as well as by downstream projects such as ONAP and OpenStack,” said Phil Robb, vice president, Operations, Networking, and Orchestration, The Linux Foundation, in a statement last week.
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Virtualization Review | August 29, 2018
Announcements at this week's VMworld conference in Las Vegas can be seen as a microcosm snapshot of the general industry trend away from hardware-centric solutions to the software-defined, a sweet spot for VMware's virtualization offerings. The show serves to sharpen VMware's focus on the extension of software-defined networking (SDN) to cover local-area networks (SD-LAN) and even datacenter infrastructure (SDDC). Nowhere is that focus more apparent than in the company's NSX offering, officially characterized as the company's network virtualization and security platform. "VMware NSX Data Center is the network virtualization platform for the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC), delivering networking and security entirely in software, abstracted from the underlying physical infrastructure." During Monday's keynote address, NSX was interwoven throughout a series of announcements by CEO Pat Gelsinger, who at one point said, "we have over 7,500 customers running on NSX, and maybe the stat that I'm most proud of is 82 percent of the Fortune 100 has now adopted NSX. You have made NSX the standard for software-defined networking. At the conference, the company highlighted the new VMware NSX-T Data Center 2.3 edition, which it said extends advanced multi-cloud networking and security capabilities to the AWS and Microsoft Azure clouds along with on-premises environments.
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