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HARDWARE SWITCH AND ROUTERS
Vendor(s)Product| Arista Networks | 7150 Series Switch |
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The Arista 7150 Series is the leading ultra low latency 1RU platform providing a unique combination of performance, advanced features and a balanced set of resources for low latency financial markets, HPC clusters and virtualized data… | |
| Arista Networks | Arista 7500 Switching Platform |
| The Arista 7500 Series of modular switches sets a new standard for performance, density, reliability, and power efficiency for data center switches. | |
| Arista Networks | Arista 7050 Series Switches |
| The Arista 7050 Series is a series of 1RU 10GbE and 40GbE wire speed multilayer switches powered by the Arista EOS, the world\'s most advanced network operating system. | |
| Big Switch Networks | Big Tap |
| Big Tap delivers monitoring functions to your Open SDN, optimizing the utility of your security tools, performance tools, and network packet brokers. - Ubiquitous and Continuous Network Visibility - Filter and Direct Traffic to Meet Analytical Too... | |
| Brocade | Brocade MLX Series |
The Brocade MLX Series of advanced routers offers a flexible open path for cloud-optimized, scalable and virtualized networks with industry-leading OpenFlow support. The MLX offers maximum service performance by enabling OpenFlow to run in… | |
| Brocade | Brocade NetIron CER 2000 Series |
The Brocade NetIron CER 2000 Series is a carrier-grade fixed form router with high 10G density. The CER enables SDN by supporting the OpenFlow protocol in hardware. With support for multipoint flows and interoperability with a wide range of… | |
| Brocade | Brocade NetIron CES 2000 Series |
The NetIron CES 2000 Series is a carrier-grade fixed form switch with high 10G density. CES enables SDN by supporting the OpenFlow protocol in hardware. With support for multipoint flows and interoperability with a wide range of controllers,… | |
| Centec Networks | V330 OpenFlow Switch Reference Design |
| V330 Series is built on Centec\'s TransWarpTM series switching silicon and mature ToR switch hardware, integrating the open source OpenvSwitch and Centec\'s Open SDK to provide a complete system solution. | |
| Cyan | Z-Series Packet-Optical Transport Platform |
| The Z-Series family of packet-optical transport platforms (P-OTPs) integrates SDN-enabled Carrier Ethernet and optical switching, allowing network operators to deploy more scalable and efficient software-defined metro, DCI and wide area networks. | |
| Extreme Networks | BlackDiamond X8 |
768 wire-speed 10G Ethernet ports and 192 40G Ethernet ports with ExtremeXOS 15.1 | |
| Extreme Networks | Summit X440 |
| The Summit X440 Series extends the intelligence of ExtremeXOS to the access edge, with stacking, PoE/PoE+ and full SDN support. | |
| Extreme Networks | Summit X460 |
| Core-class intelligent switching and routing with exceptional port density and high-performance stacking. | |
| HP | HP 3500 and 3500 yl Switch Series |
The HP 3500 Switch Series consists of advanced intelligent-edge switches, available in 24-port… | |
| HP | HP 5400 zl Switch Series |
Modular chassis switches (6/12 slot) – 10/100, 10/100/1000 and 10G | |
| HP | HP 8200 zl Switch Series |
High availability modular chassis switch with 10/100/1000 and 10G connectivity | |
| IBM | IBM RackSwitch G8264 & G8264T |
Designed with top performance in mind, the IBM RackSwitch G8264 and IBM RackSwitch G8264T are ideal for today’s big data, cloud and optimized workloads. Both are enterprise-class and full-featured data-center switches that deliver… | |
| Intune Networks | Verisma iVX8000 |
Intune Networks iVX8000 system is a protocol,… | |
| NEC | PF5820 |
48 10G (SFP+) and 4 40G (QSFP) 720 12-tuple flows + 80K L2 only flows | |
| NEC | PF5240 |
48 10/100/1000 + 4 10G (SFP+) 64,000 – 160,000 12-tuple flows | |
| Netgear | GSM7352Sv2 |
48 10/100/1000 + 4 10G (SFP+).Broadcom with Indigo | |
| Pica8 | Pica8 3290 |
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| Pica8 | Pica8 3780 |
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| Pica8 | Pica8 3920 |
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| Plexxi Inc | Plexxi Switch 1 |
| The Plexxi Switch is the first SDN-based Ethernet switch that integrates the power and flexibility of high-density optical multiplexing technology to create rich-bandwidth, low-latency, adaptable datacenter networks for clouds and dynamic datacenters | |
LAYER 4-7 APPLICATION
Vendor(s)Product| Embrane | heleos |
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Distributed software platform for powering on-demand elastic network services such as load balancers, firewalls, virtual private networks (VPNs) and WAN Optimization. | |
| LineRate Systems (acquired by F5) | LineRate Proxy |
LineRate Proxy provides Service Providers with dynamic L7+ application traffic steering & management without expensive network appliance hardware. The LineRate Proxy pure… | |
NETWORK VIRTUALIZATION SOFTWARE
Vendor(s)Product| Juniper Networks | JunosV App Engine |
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| JunosV App Engine provides a common platform for software virtualization services. It extends Juniper systems by enabling the implementation of Juniper and third-party services that can optimize and monetize service provider and enterprise network. | |
ORCHESTRATION SOFTWARE
Vendor(s)Product| Cyan | Blue Planet |
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| Blue Planet is a scalable multi-layer SDN system with open APIs that enables rapid service deployment and application development in a multi-vendor network environment. Blue Planet enables network virtualization and management across various network. | |
| SDNsquare | SDN2 NEW |
| SDN² provides highly automated flow-based end to end network provisioning, guaranteeing dedicated network resources for each flow and application. An external SDN expert system reduces the complexity of network design and management. | |
SDN APPLICATION
Vendor(s)Product| Boundary | BOUNDARY |
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| Boundary\'s granular view of how the applications are driving network traffic enables SDN networks to be automatically tuned to Application workloads - all of the Boundary data and features are available via a Rest API. | |
| SQLstream, Inc. | s-Server v3.0 |
| s-Server 3.0 is a distributed streaming Big Data management platform for the real-time integration and analysis of high volume, high velocity data. This platform can be used as a close-to-network SDN platform. | |
SDN CONTROLLER
Vendor(s)Product| Big Switch Networks | Big Network Controller |
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| The Open SDN network application platform that delivers unified network intelligence, programmability and scalability: - Common network abstraction on network infrastructure - Normalized policy and functions across fabric - Standards-Based and Open C | |
| NEC | NEC ProgrammableFlow Networking |
April 16th, 2012: NEC Released Programmable Flow 2.0 NEC’s Controllers and Management Console provide network-level virtualization, with centralized control that provides easy deployment, management, control and visibility of all end-to-end… | |
| Nicira (Acquired by VMware) | Nicira Network virtualization platform (NVP) |
NVP creates an intelligent abstraction layer between end hosts and an existing network. NVP consists of a virtual switch component (OVS) and a clusterable controller system that allows programmatic management of large numbers of virtual… | |
| Plexxi Inc | Plexxi Control |
| Plexxi Control is an SDN-based centralized controller platform built specifically to understand the affinities that exist between data center resources and directly implement the actual network that is needed for optimal performance. | |
SDN SDK
Vendor(s)Product| Arista Networks | Arista Extensible Modular Operating System |
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| Arista EOS provides extremely robust and reliable data center communication services while delivering security, stability, openness, modularity and extensibility. | |
SILICON
Vendor(s)Product| Broadcom | Trident/Trident+ 56840 |
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High performance switching ASIC. Supported on OpenFlow-enabled switches by various firmware, including Indigo firmware, XORPlus firmware and other vendor proprietary firmware | |
| Centec Networks | CTC6048(Humber) |
| CTC6048(HumberTM) is a high feature, high performance IP/Ethernet switching processor designed to fulfill next generation Metro Ethernet network requirements. | |
| Centec Networks | CTC5048(Brooklyn) |
| CTC5048(BrooklynTM) is a feature rich, high performance single chip IP/Ethernet switching processor designed to fulfill next generation Metro Ethernet network requirements. | |
| Centec Networks | CTC6028 (Manhattan) |
| CTC6028 (ManhattanTM) is a feature rich, high performance single chip IP/Ethernet switching processor designed to fulfill next generation Metro Ethernet network requirements. | |
| EZchip | NP-5 |
| NP-5 is a single-chip, programmable, 240Gbps wire-speed network processor with 240Gbps traffic manager for Carrier Ethernet applications. | |
| EZchip | NP-4 |
| NP-4 is a single-chip, programmable, 100-Gigabit throughput (50-Gigabit full duplex) wire-speed network processor. | |
| Intel | Alta - FM6000 |
Low latency, high performance and extremely programmable, 10GbE FM6000/FM7000 Ethernet switch silicon is a key enabler for network administrators to gradually migrate to OpenFlow and SDN. The FM6000 series hybrid Ethernet switch provides superb… | |
| Netronome | Network Flow Processor |
Netronome's flow processors scale from 40 to 200 Gbps and uniquely match the most stringent requirements, including over 200 C-programmable cores to keep pace with new and emerging standards. With 96 L2-L3 packet processing cores, 120 flow… | |
VIRTUAL SWITCH AND ROUTERS
Vendor(s)Product| Big Switch Networks | Big Virtual Switch |
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| Big Virtual Switch dynamically provisions Virtual Network Segments to make the network as agile and dynamic as your other cloud infrastructure. -Dynamic Network Provisioning for Cloud Workloads -Dramatic Increase in Data Center Resource Utilizat... | |
| Cisco Systems | Cisco Nexus 1000V Series Switches |
vPath 2.0 supports service chaining, so that multiple virtual network services can be used as part of a single traffic flow. For example, by merely specifying the network policy, vPath 2.0 can direct the traffic first to go through the ASA 1000V… | |
| CohesiveFT | VNS3 |
| VNS3 provides overlay SDN capabilities to allow users to control addressing, topology, protocols and encrypted communications for their business applications. | |
| IBM | IBM Distributed Virtual Switch 5000V |
The IBM System Networking Distributed Virtual Switch 5000V is an advanced, feature-rich distributed virtual switch for VMware environments with policy-based virtual machine (VM) connectivity. The IBM Distributed Virtual Switch (DVS) 5000V enables… | |
| Microsoft | Hyper-V Virtual Switch |
The Hyper-V virtual switch (vSwitch) in Windows Server 2012 introduces a number of capabilities that are requested by customers for tenant isolation, traffic shaping, protection against malicious virtual machines, and easier troubleshooting of… | |
| VMware | VMware vSphere Distributed Switch |
Simplify and enhance the provisioning, administration and monitoring of virtual machine networking with VMware vSphere Distributed Switch. The Distributed Switch provides a centralized point of control for cluster level networking and moves… | |
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Vendor(s)Product| 6WIND | 6WINDGate Cloud Edition Networking Software |
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The 6WINDGate Cloud Edition software provides network performance enhancements for virtualized architectures, as well as a rich set of optimized Layer 2 through 7 networking protocols optimized for general-purpose platforms and fully-compatible… | |
| One Convergence | Edge Acceleration Platform |
The One Convergence Edge Acceleration platform is fully programmable and is future proof, upgradable to newer versions of Open vSwitch and OpenFlow protocol. The initial offering of Edge Acceleration solution, runs on a Freescale QorIQ based… | |
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