OVERVIEW

The world-wide-web, cloud computing, the move to virtualization, and the massive shift of society to an always-connected lifestyle have placed many challenging demands on cloud providers and large-scale datacenters around the world. Hyperconvergence and Hyperscale computing deliver simplification and savings by consolidating all required functionality into a single infrastructure stack running on an efficient, elastic pool of x86 resources, but at the cost of significantly increased network complexity.

PROBLEM

Vertically integrated network architectures built from interconnected black-boxes simply cannot keep up with the pace of change, and costs are rising way faster than the revenues. Most current networking infrastructure is built using network ASICs that were never designed to be programmable in the way SDN requires. The quick fix was to virtualize network functions and push these tasks onto v-switch software running on standard X86 servers, only to discover that this processor architecture is ill-suited for packet processing, resulting in disappointing performance, unexpectedly high costs, and a very limited capacity to scale.

SOLUTION

Programmable Forwarding Plane technology is a perfect fit for the software-driven large-scale Data Center, and NoviFlow’s high-performance, solutions provide the programmability, features and performance to leverage SDN to get the most out of Cloud and Hyperscale data centers. At NoviFlow we believe in the fully programmable forwarding plane, which is why we have designed our networking solutions – NoviMapper, NoviBroker and NoviAnalytics – to leverage high-performance P4 based networking white-box switches. NoviFlow’s forwarding plane solutions offer the throughput and scalability for even the most demanding Cloud and virtualized applications. NoviFlow’s solutions were designed from the inside out to offer the highest level of performance and reliability, and offer both the management support expected by network engineers as well advanced features that enable our customers to make full usage of programmable networks.