The new software package, including the Xceed Multi-Layer SDN platform and Xceed applications, enables service providers to create new revenue streams and reduce operating costs by controlling greater network efficiency.
Service providers have begun using SDN within their data centers to automate the networking of virtual devices and functions, but they have not yet been able to extend this same SDN automation to the metro and core networks that are critical to their business. Meanwhile, traffic patterns in metro and core networks have become increasingly variable and unpredictable. Service providers face the challenge of rapidly activating bandwidth, reconfiguring network resources, and adapting to application demand using manual systems and processes.
The Xceed Software Suite is designed to address these challenges through a multi-layered SDN platform built for diverse purposes and applications ready to turn into revenue, leveraging the far-reaching scalability, flexibility, and programmability of Infinera's transport networks.
A purpose-built platform: The Xceed Multi-Layer SDN Platform provides scalable SDN control across Infinera’s entire portfolio of intelligent transport networks, encompassing long-haul, metro, and data center interconnect applications. Built on the open-source OpenDaylight SDN controller, the Xceed Platform incorporates advanced microservices developed by Infinera, such as the Xceed Multi-Layer Path Computation Element (PCE), and a rich network abstraction layer incorporating Infinera’s proven Open Transport Switch (OTS) software. With a wide range of application programming interfaces (APIs), standards-based information models, and open-source components, the Xceed Multi-Layer Platform sets a new benchmark for openness, enabling rapid application development and deployment.
Revenue-Ready Applications: Xceed applications unleash the scalability, flexibility, and programmability of Infinera's packet optical transport networks to improve service delivery and facilitate the goal of protecting and increasing revenue, while also increasing network efficiency for service providers. Xceed applications available in the initial release include:
Xceed Dynamic Bandwidth provides on-demand Optical Transport Network (OTN) provisioning, including MEF (Metro Ethernet Forum) compliant Ethernet services. Xceed Dynamic Bandwidth enables programmable on-demand capacity activation, creating an elastic environment designed to allow faster service provisioning, more efficient resource utilization across packet, digital, and optical layers, and improved network utilization.
Xceed Instant Virtual Networks facilitates network virtualization, enabling service providers to define virtual transport network topologies on a shared physical network infrastructure. With Layer 1 (OTN) Instant Virtual Network (IVN), multiple virtual transport networks can be established, each operating as an independent transport network with integrated OTN switching, optical routing, and protection capabilities tailored to end-user applications.
The Xceed Software Suite enables Infinera and its partners and customers to play a leading role in building fully open, SDN-controlled, multi-layer networks.
Infinera's Xceed Software Suite is available now for trials and deployments with select customers, and general availability is expected in the fourth quarter of 2016.
