Brocade upgrades Cloud Service Delivery

Brocade, a company dealing in network solutions has announced new features which are designed to enable service providers to build resilient, cloud-optimized networks and transform their businesses to increase profitability and infrastructure investment.

These enhancements are part of the new Multi-Service Iron Ware Software Release 5.3 (Brocade NetIron 5.3 software release) for the Brocade NetIron family of Internet and metro routers.

This family of routers enables service providers with an option to switch from providing basic connectivity services to delivering high-value cloud services, increasing customer satisfaction and creating new revenue-generating business opportunities.

According to Gartner, a research firm the total telecommunications market is expected to grow from $2 trillion in 2010 to about $2.4 trillion in 2015.

To meet the increasing demands of the customers, service providers need a truly powerful and scalable core-to-edge network infrastructure with the ability to support large-scale multitenant environments.

The Brocade solution includes 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) and 10 GbE density; IPv4/IPv6 capabilities; high-performance routing table scalability and MPLS and Carrier Ethernet functionality to help service providers meet their growing business challenges.

“The new Brocade NetIron 5.3 software release delivers on the four value propositions of the Brocade One strategy: non-stop networking, investment protection, unmatched simplicity and application optimization,” said Rajesh Kaul, Regional Sales Director Brocade.

“Brocade helps service providers transition their metro broadband and core networks to seamlessly meet growing customer demand''. He added.

The Brocade NetIron 5.3 software will be available in January 2012, at no additional cost to all Brocade NetIron router family customers with a valid service contract.