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Brocade Aims to Kick-Start Middle East SDN Market with Free Vyatta Controller License Offer
Published Jan 28, 2015
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Wide scale adoption of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) might still be a few years away for the Middle East, but Brocade hopes to give organizations the impetus to begin their journey towards this networking paradigm. The vendor is currently offering a free one-year license on its Brocade Vyatta Controller thus allowing service providers and enterprises to explore SDN use cases without large upfront investments. While the license is restricted to the management of five physical or virtual network nodes in a non-production environment, it includes 60 days of free access to Brocade's 24x7 technical support.
Brocade's Vyatta controller is the first commercial controller built directly from OpenDaylight code. It can be deployed as a VM on any major hypervisor and is interoperable with third-party network hardware. “Because of Brocade's commitment to open standards based development, this golden opportunity is available to all customers rather than being restricted to only those with certain infrastructures. Despite its many benefits, SDN is not a widely understood concept in this region and roll-out has been slow due to the lack of expertise. We hope to change this by offering a world-class solution bundled with world-class support,” says Yarob Sakhnini, regional director, MEMA at Brocade.
The company's ambition to kick-start the SDN market is made further evident by its decision to offer the developer edition of the controller which includes templates, libraries, and testing environments to help developers write and test SDN applications and easily deploy them into service. The company stated that it will let 'developers retain full intellectual property rights to the applications they build' and that these applications would run on any OpenDaylight based controller.
While Brocade's free controller will entice organization's to play around with SDN, the company is already offering production licenses of the Brocade Vyatta Controller and has priced this at $100 per attached node per year including support. The company also offers Brocade Certified Education to drive adoption and application development, and Brocade Professional Services to assist with SDN implementation and development efforts.
The Brocade Vyatta Controller is based on the OpenDaylight Project’s Helium code release. An advantage to Vyatta customers is that instead of having to wait for Lithium, the codename of the next milestone OpenDaylight release, they can avail of regular fixes that Brocade will provide in incremental updates.
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VMD - [Virtual Marketing Department]
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