SDN and NFV get another Boost from Sandvine and Dell Collaboration

As operators look out for faster and more efficient ways to operate their fast growing networks, technologies such as the Software Defined Netwoking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) will continue to play a vital role in saving network costs and creating more flexibility in the implementation of various solutions, including the network policy control. Towards this end, Sandvine and Dell are collaborating to offer CSPs around the world the push forward in establishing the SDN and NFV and assisting the big players in the industry to drive cost savings and expedite the implementation of some of the key elements in the network infrastructure. A recent blog post written by Don Bowman, CTO of Sandvine discusses the collaboration and how it wlll drive great value in the telecom sector. The following are some excerpts from the blog:

As part of these pilot projects, Sandvine and Dell OEM Solutions are collaborating on a SDN & NFV solution that combines Sandvine’s industry leading network policy control  solution, and its flexibility to apply subscriber-centric services, with Dell’s high performance PowerEdge™ blade server platform. SDN allows effective utilization of network resources along a path, but it needs to work in concert with network policy control which enforces subscriber and application based actions at a point in the network, in order to implement network service chaining. 

In the world of providing Internet connectivity, communications service providers (CSPs) are continually looking for cost-effective ways to meet the growing subscriber demand for bandwidth, and many are exploring the promise of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). These distinct, but related, technologies have the potential to dramatically lower capital expenses (CAPEX), operating expenses (OPEX) and time-to-market (TTM) by abstracting network infrastructure from the network control and application layers, and thereby enabling centralized auto-provisioning of network resources.