Avaya today announced it has extended the hyper-segmentation
capabilities of its fabric networking to OpenStack. The integration
between Avaya's Fabric Connect and the OpenStack networking subproject
called
Neutron relies on a simple plugin that improves security and eases provisioning of virtual networks from data center to desktop.
OpenStack
is an open industry project aimed at data centers that act like a cloud
service for their enterprise. Enterprises continue to adopt the
OpenStack software platform as a means to simplify orchestration of
virtual compute, storage, and networking resources for best-of-breed
implementations.
With increasing demands at the edge of the
network causing traditional enterprise data centers to morph into
Everywhere Data Centers, however, the ability to extend virtual networks
from the core to the desktop requires arduous configuration and
increases complexity.
Avaya Fabric Connect
simplifies configuration through automation from the core to the edge,
and increases security via hyper-segmentation -- isolated, secure lanes
for network traffic that mitigate the potential impacts of cyberattacks
and unauthorized access.
In collaboration with Mirantis,
Inc., a company specializing in building and managing private cloud
infrastructure using OpenStack, the new plugin -- called ML2 -- replaces
complexity with automation available through Avaya Fabric Connect. As a
result, the secure, hyper-segmentation capabilities of Fabric Connect
are extended through OpenStack, alleviating concerns about typical
border problems including onboarding and cyberattacks.
The ML2 plugin will be released to open source community in May and will immediately work on standard OpenStack implementations.