On today’s show we have an interview with Nitin Serro, Founder and CEO of Serro Solutions, to look at how SD-WAN is now being applied to combat evolving security threats such as DDoS and other aggressive attacks.
But first, let’s take a look at some of the top headlines from across the telecom-related NFV, SDN, cloud and software space from the past week.
Ericsson continued its software push, announcing plans to acquire full interest in San Francisco-based NodePrime in a move to accelerate support for software-defined infrastructure. The NodePrime platform currently provides support for Ericsson’s Hyperscale Datacenter System 8000 product.
Financial terms of the all cash deal were not released, but it will see Ericsson pick up 100% control of NodePrime, including 15 employees, which will be integrated into the vendor’s Business Unit Cloud & IP division. NodePrime’s platform is said to be the only infrastructure management platform and is designed to support command and control of the “complete ecosystem of components in today’s existing data centers.”
NodePrime emerged last September with $7 million in seed money from Ericsson, Menlo Ventures, NEA, Formation 8, Initialized Capital, Crosslink Capital and TEEC Angel Fund. The move included the unveiling of its platform that was said to be used by SAP, Ericsson and GoDaddy.
Ericsson has been bolstering its software work in the telecom space revolving around SDN, NFV and cloud platforms.
The company late last year announced a partnership with Cisco calling for the companies to combine platforms to target telecom operators and reportedly produce at least $1 billion in incremental revenue opportunities for each company beginning in 2018. When announced, the partnership was said to offer a platform including routing, data center, networking, cloud, mobility, management and control, and tap their respective global footprints to “create the networks of the future.”
The companies said the network support is to include “5G,” cloud, IP and the “Internet of Things,” and that Ericsson and Cisco will provide teams to jointly work on an initiative targeting SDN, NFV, and network management and control.
Also this week, Affirmed Network launched its Service Automation Platform, which it claims allows mobile operators to reduce the time-to-market and operational costs of introducing new services by as much as 90%.
The platform is said to provide automated service provisioning to legacy and virtualized networks, which Affirmed noted allows operators to develop new services without the need for “complex coding or the risk of unnecessary errors associated with today’s manual approach.”
In a move to bolster its claim, Affirmed, along with Mellanox and Red Hat, commissioned a study from Core Analysis looking at the business case of a virtualized automated service provisioning environment. Not surprisingly, the study found network operators deploying automated service provisioning can experience significant savings and faster time-to-revenue when launching services.
Specifically, the study found provisioning of new enterprise customer for VPN-as-a-service resulted in operational savings of between 76% and 87%; the launching of a mobile virtual network operator customer resulted in operational savings of between 92% and 97%; and the provisioning of multiple sponsored data or zero rating plans resulted in savings of between 83% and 97%.
For this week’s featured interview, we spoke with Serro Solutions founder and CEO Nitin Serro to get some background on the company and look at how SD-WAN is now being applied to combat evolving security threats such as DDoS and other aggressive attacks.
Thanks for joining us on this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check. Make sure to check us out again next week when we are scheduled to speak with Diego Lopez, who is Technical Manager at ETSI and Telefonica, to get an update on ETSI’s NFV program.
