HP and NEC Corporation are collaborating on the integration of advanced technology, leveraging open standards, to deliver software-defined networking (SDN) enabled networking solutions to enterprise customers.
Since 1995, NEC and HP have been strategic alliance partners, with NEC’s large-scale, mission-critical enterprise IT systems developed on HP’s Unix-based operating system, HP-UX. Building upon their successful collaboration on enterprise servers, which continues to provide open and flexible infrastructure for social and enterprise system frameworks, HP and NEC are extending their alliance to encompass network infrastructure solutions.
The collaboration will deliver the innovative infrastructure and open standards–based SDN solutions required in the New Style of IT that is driven by industry trends such as social, mobile, cloud and big data.
HP and NEC also are working with industry-standards organizations to show continued commitment to a standards-based SDN solution. HP and NEC will build ecosystems of application vendors providing business and network applications based on products that utilize open standards to implement SDN, which in turn allows for dynamic control of the network.
The future of network infrastructure requires the use of open standards—giving customers increased flexibility and choice. HP and NEC have been working to ensure interoperability between HP SDN-Ready OpenFlow switches and the NEC SDN controller, which enables a dynamically controlled network infrastructure.
With virtualization and automation technology becoming increasingly important to the network, NEC has started work to port the NEC Virtual Tenant Network (VTN) application to interoperate with the HP SDN controller and to include the application in the HP SDN App Store. This will extend the benefits of the NEC VTN application to customers with an existing HP Networking–based infrastructure.
As part of the joint effort, HP and NEC will increase global delivery of SDN-ready networking solutions and software based on open standards. By combining these offerings with servers and storage, customers can build an integrated ICT (information and communications technologies) infrastructure that flexibly responds to unpredictable changes and frequent requests for changes.
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