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The cloud network unbound with software-defined networking

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The cloud network unbound with software-defined networking

Nuage Networks™, a Nokia venture, helps service providers, web-scale operators and enterprises unleash the power of the cloud. Our software-defined networking (SDN) solution gives you the freedom and flexibility to:

Connect sites, workgroups and applications faster, more securely and more cost-effectively
React to change easily
Respond to growth seamlessly.

Nuage Networks Virtualized Services Platform (VSP) virtualizes and automates any datacenter network infrastructure, so you can instantaneously deliver cloud applications to thousands of tenants in a policy-driven manner. Nuage Networks provides SDN capabilities for clouds of all sizes – from small private clouds to the largest public clouds in the world, making the network as readily consumable as compute resources.

Nuage Networks VSP provides an open, vendor-neutral cloud networking infrastructure that supports all leading virtualization platforms, network hardware and cloud management platforms. No proprietary or purpose-built hardware is required since all components install in Docker containers, hypervisors or virtual machines.

The Nuage Networks 7850 Virtualized Services Gateway (VSG) extends SDN 2.0 functionality seamlessly between virtualized and non-virtualized assets in the datacenter. It is a high-performance gateway, providing high scalability (up to a terabit of capacity in a single rack unit) and multi-tenant gateway functionality at Layers 2 to 4.

Read the Nuage Networks 7850 VSG Gateway datasheet.

Nuage Networks Software-Defined Networking platform integrates with best-of-breed applications, platforms, tools, and hardware

Nuage Networks Virtuoso Certification Program (NN-VCP) Accelerate cloud services delivery and advance your career by becoming a NN-VCP-certified SDN professional for the datacenter and WAN.

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Nuage Networks SDN seamlessly connects your datacenter and the WAN, so networking across the whole environment is fluid and responsive. With the Nuage Networks VSP solution, you can:

Simplify operations for rapid service instantiation

Define network service requirements in clear, IT-friendly language
Bring up services using automated, policy-based instantiation of network connectivity
Reduce time to service and limit potential for errors.

Address changing business requirements

Adapt datacenters and private networks dynamically
Detect newly created and updated virtual machines and respond automatically by adapting network services according to established policies; this instantly makes available new applications to all users, regardless of location.

Support massive scalability and hybrid models

Benefit from a distributed, policy-based approach that allows multiple virtualization platforms to interoperate over a single network
Optimize the datacenter network by separating service definitions from service instantiation

Produban’s hybrid cloud scales to support global business

Produban needed to build a scalable global cloud with a networking infrastructure to deliver worldwide digital banking services for its customers. To meet these requirements, Produban looked at suppliers around the world to find a solution that would fit its exacting requirements.

Read the Produban success story.

China Mobile creates DevOps private clouds for its subsidiaries

In a fiercely competitive environment, China Mobile needed to transform its internal systems to a cloud model. While this model needed to support customers eventually, the initial impetus was to create a robust architecture for development and operations (DevOps).

Read the China Mobile success story.

European company innovates a new disruption: the dedicated cloud

The company’s customers wanted the self-service controls, reliability, and security of a dedicated server environment but the elasticity, cost and scale advantages of a public cloud. And many customers wanted physical isolation to address privacy and security concerns.

Read the European company success story.

Korean company “conglomerates” a private cloud

The company was facing a critical junction in its evolution. Its customers — very large enterprises — wanted to transition from hosting to a private cloud environment. Their cloud needs could not be met by a legacy networking architecture.

Read the Korean company success story.

Cloud Service Provider redefines public cloud for China

The company provides a public cloud for enterprises ranging from small-to-medium businesses to large enterprises. The existing cloud services could not achieve the scale the company needed, both in terms of resources and operations.

Read the Cloud Service Provider success story.

Consistent with SDN tenets, Nuage Networks VSP includes a cloud service management plane, a datacenter control plane, and a datacenter data plane. The platform is made up of three key software-based components:

Virtualized Services Controller

VSC provides a robust control plane for the datacenter network, maintaining a full per-tenant view of network and service topologies. Through network APIs that use interfaces such as OpenFlow, VSC programs the datacenter network independent of datacenter

Virtualized Services Directory

VSD is a policy, business logic and analytics engine that supports the abstract definition of network services. Through RESTful APIs to VSD, administrators can define and refine service designs and incorporate enterprise policies.

Virtual Routing and Switching

The VRS module serves as a virtual endpoint for network services. It detects changes in the compute environment as they occur and instantaneously triggers policy-based responses to ensure that the network connectivity needs of applications are met.

"We are excited about this latest innovation from Nuage Networks. Extending SDN network automation capabilities to BBVA cloud regions will allow us to turn up and adapt our network services in a far more timely and efficient way, streamlining operations and improving our agility by automating network connectivity and services in a policy-based fashion that aligns with our business objectives."

Pascual de Juan / Global Head of Innovation in Technologies, BBVA Digital Bank

"We are pleased to implement the Nuage Networks product suite in our cloud infrastructure. The Nuage Networks SDN technology allows us to address key performance and compatibility requirements for an open environment. This will allow us to virtualize our infrastructure and to offer our customers cloud services in a more dynamic way."

Erik Beauvalot / Chief Operating Officer, Numergy

"Nuage Networks ties the business together. Standing on its own within the SDN overlay market is Nuage Networks, a fully funded venture exclusively by Nokia. While the rest of the market is tackling hybrid cloud issues or hybrid WAN connections at the branch office, Nuage is the first to align to Forrester's third virtual network infrastructure tenet -- an enterprise-wide fabric of horizontally interconnected components."

Andre Kindness / Principal Analyst serving Infrastructure & Operations Professionals