SDN platform now comes with one year of free management
Looking to boost industry uptake of its recently launched Vyatta Controller, Brocade said it is now offering a free one-year license for the downloadable software.
The company said the free management license covers up to five physical or virtual network nodes in a “non-production environment” and 60 days of newly available technical support. Brocade noted that a production license for the Vyatta Controller costs $100 per attached node per year.
Brocade also launched new services in support of the platform, including its certified education designed to provide a foundation on the skills an IT organization may need to adopt SDN; professional services that include consulting services to assist with the implementation of SDN; and access to an online community of independent, community-based information related to the service.
“Our free license model, new services that cater to both users and developers, as well as ongoing allegiance to OpenDaylight, not only remove significant barriers to implementing SDN solutions but also accelerate the time from proof-of-concept to production,” explained Kelly Herrell, SVP and GM of software networking at Brocade.
RCR Wireless News spoke with Tom Nadeau, distinguished engineer at Brocade, on the latest updates.
Brocade initially announced the Vyatta Controller last September, noting that the product was a “keystone” product in its SDN portfolio and designed to help telecom operators benefit from an open networking platform strategy. That strategy includes providing a controller tool that allows operators to manage end-to-end services across underlying physical and virtual network infrastructure, including switches, routers, firewalls, virtual private networks and load balancers. The company added that as carriers begin deploying NFV, the Vyatta Controller can provide a “strategic bridge between existing and next-generation architectures.”
A report released earlier last year by ACG Research forecast that annual spending on all SDN-related equipment could hit $29.5 billion per year by 2018, compared with less than $4.5 billion expected to be spent this year. For actual equipment set to be used in live network operations, that growth is forecast to increase from $858 million this year to $15 billion by 2018.
One source for the strength in the market is the work a number of vendors have done through the OpenDaylight Project, which is an open community focused on software-defined networking and virtualization solutions.
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