Brocade SDN Controller 2.0 available in India

BENGALURU: Brocade has extended its open source SDN (software defined networking) offering in India market. Today, the company announced commercial availability of Brocade SDN Controller 2.0, the OpenDaylight (ODL) controller based on the Lithium ODL release, and two new software-defined networking (SDN) applications—Brocade Topology Manager and Brocade Flow Manager. These new solutions reinforce Brocade’s leadership in open source SDN, providing greater interoperability and orchestration while eliminating vendor lock-in for customers, enabling newer avenues for innovation. The enhancements to meet data center requirements for improved interoperability and orchestration include:

• Enhancements to the Open vSwitch Database (OVSDB) interface and the OpenStack Modular Layer 2 plug-in (certified in Red Hat’s Juno distribution) enabling cloud providers to completely use an open software stack to manage their data center infrastructure.
• OpenDaylight clustering for improved scalability and stability.
• A new user interface for applications to provide a consistent and intuitive view of the network under control.

New SDN applications complement this latest release of the Brocade SDN Controller. The Brocade Topology Manager, a free SDN application, displays discovered network topology, allowing administrators to create a list of nodes and conduct simple searches for nodes. The Brocade Flow Manager extends the capabilities of the Brocade Topology Manager by enabling users to view and interact with the network topology using near-real-time information to perform traffic engineering and network segmentation based on end-to-end flow views. In addition, the new Brocade SDN Controller supports the recently released Brocade Flow Optimizer to intelligently manage traffic flow and proactively mitigate network attacks.

The Brocade SDN Controller is continuously built from OpenDaylight code, free of proprietary extensions.  Brocade provides multi-vendor compatibility testing and complete, single-source support for Brocade SDN Controller environments.

A free download of the Brocade SDN Controller includes 60 days of technical support. A production license for the Brocade SDN Controller is priced at $100 per attached node per year, including support. The Brocade Topology Manager is a free application. The Brocade Flow Manager is priced at $40 per attached node per year including support.