Telefonica Business Solutions, in partnership with Alcatel-Lucent’s Nuage Networks division, has completed evaluation and testing surrounding service chaining of virtualized network functions (NFV) in a multi-vendor SDN environment.
Specifically, Telefonica Business Solutions executed the proof of concept evaluation with Nuage Networks Virtualized Services Platform (VSP) working with Alcatel-Lucent’s 7750 Service Router (SR) and Virtualized Service Router. The companies also demonstrated seamless integration with Telefonica’s existing third-party IP Edge Routing platforms in the roles of Datacenter Gateway and Datacenter Provider Edge, including integration between the automated value-added applications in the Datacenter and WAN connectivity services. The hybrid solution will provide Telefonica’s enterprise customers the flexibility to make use of automated value-added services together with the optimal WAN service depending on needs for bandwidth, control, cost and quality of service.
Nuage Networks VSP provides the automated overlay networking for Telefonica’s existing VMware virtualization environment as well as a test environment based on OpenStack and the open source Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor.
