OVERVIEW

Today, almost everything runs on applications. Massive amounts of data, multimedia usage and the advent of cloud computing have challenged data networks with unprecedented demands. Data centers thus became difficult and expensive to manage. As technology rapidly advances and personal devices become ever more powerful, network providers must keep up with the pace.

PROBLEM

As a result, companies on the cutting edge of technology sought out new alternatives. Software Defined Networking (SDN) makes it possible to optimize networks on the fly and to quickly reallocate resources in reaction to changes in network usage. SDN has proven to be one of the most efficient and responsive solutions and has been implemented using OpenFlow, an open industry standard for SDN systems. However, early deployments showed that traditional ASIC-based network equipment cannot support SDN’s full capabilities, limiting potential benefits. At the same time, vSwitches on X86-based devices provided access to the full SDN feature set, but with limited switching throughput, leading to a rapid escalation in equipment costs and limited application scalability with even the highest performance processor cores.

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.

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