Because SDN runs on commodity hardware, it could translate into siginficant savings for network operators.
Its wholly owned subsidiaries include DiGi Telecommunications Sdn Bhd and Pay By Mobile Sdn Bhd.
That is causing network bottlenecks and creating opportunities for technology called software-defined networking, or SDN.
Juniper, too, says it is on board, planning to roll out its first SDN products within a year.
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Earlier this month, Cisco announced plans to embrace the technology, including products that use an emerging SDN standard called OpenFlow.
That can take days now, but could eventually be reduced to minutes using SDN, says Lew Moorman, president of Rackspace.
For the past couple of year, Cisco has been working hard on its SDN strategy, also known as software-defined networking.
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"We see SDN as a very, very strong opportunity, " Pradeep Sindhu, the company's chief technology officer, said at a meeting for financial analysts this month.
The approach aligns with the trend toward SDN (software-defined networking) and NFV (network function virtualization) among telecommunications operators, thanks to its elastic and virtualization-friendly cloud architecture.
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In the SDN approach, those control functions are split off to be managed by one central program, which may be run on an inexpensive server system.
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By separating the software that controls network traffic from the physical routers and switches, SDN should make networks more secure, more dependable and much easier to manage.
Using SDN, businesses could partition their networks for private use.
The San Antonio company now has about 1, 000 of its customers using SDN and in August will start the next phase of its project, which will eventually cover 60, 000 customers.
This new switch, the company hopes, will help customers work with new protocols as SDN evolves in the coming years without having to rip out and replace their existing networking gear.
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At a conference in April, Google executive Urs Holzle said the search giant has spent the last two years redesigning the network that connects its data centers so that it is entirely SDN.
The new switch, dubbed EX9200, is based on a programmable Juniper ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) which provides compatibility with not only existing SDN protocols but also new ones as they develop over the next decade.
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The protocol, which was initially conceived by a graduate student at Stanford University named Martin Casado, represents a new way to control network switches and routers that has come to be known as software defined networking, or SDN.
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The new SDN strategy will entail a more flexible pricing wherein instead of selling expensive gear with built-in software at an upfront price, Juniper will sell the gear first and then the software for a recurring licensing fee in a separate transaction.
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The new SDN strategy, as outlined in January, entails a more flexible pricing wherein instead of selling expensive gear with built-in software at an upfront price, Juniper will sell the gear first and then the software for a recurring licensing fee in a separate transaction.
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