IP
Infusion, Inc., a leading provider of intelligent network software
for enhanced Ethernet and IP services, today announced the availability
of VirNOS,
a virtual network platform based on Network Functions Virtualization
(NFV) to help network operators to reduce their CapEx and OpEx costs,
accelerate time-to-market for new services, increase agility, and deploy
new network services faster.
Network operators face the challenge of integrating and maintaining a
variety of proprietary hardware, while coping with increased energy
costs, growing capital investment and space requirements. Many core
networking services, including switching, routing, load balancing and
VPN, can now be performed by software either running directly on x86-64
servers or running as virtual machines, instead of requiring expensive
networking equipment. Therefore IT organizations are migrating
networking functions to standard, high-volume server environments and
replacing dedicated network hardware with virtualization software that
run on commodity servers.
IP Infusion’s VirNOS NFV-based software platform virtualizes network
functions to give network operators a cost-effective approach to deploy
and manage their networking services. With VirNOS, network service
development can benefit from:
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Supports flow switching via OpenFlow for easy deployment of innovative
routing and switching protocols
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Ideal for virtual machines, high-security networks and next generation
IP-based mobile networks
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Uses Intel DPDK to provide programming framework that scales and
enables faster development of high speed data packet networking
applications
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Supports IPv4 and IPv6 dynamic routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, ISIS,
Unicast)
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Leverages mature code base of ZebOS-XP® -- IP Infusion’s industry
proven platform
“With the NFV capabilities of IP Infusion’s new VirNOS platform, network
operators can offer new network services more readily, and scale
services up and down to support their changing business requirements,”
said Kiyo Oishi, CEO and president of IP Infusion. “We are partnering
with several network equipment manufacturers to package our NFV
technology into their software offerings which will generate more
innovative network services and help their customers to offer new
revenue models and growth opportunities.”
For more information on how IP Infusion is delivering on network
functions virtualization technology, please visit www.ipinfusion.com.