Telecom Lead Europe: Deutsche Telekom has selected Tail-f Systems, a provider of network service programmability solutions, to deliver the key software components of its software-defined network (SDN) in its TeraStream project.
The SDN project will enable TeraStream to create an IP transformation to address traffic growth while streamlining the delivery of network services in real time.
With Tail-f’s NCS (Network Control System) TeraStream is able to deliver this new networking model through a network-wide and service-aware unified application programming interface (API).
Axel Clauberg, vice president, Aggregation, Transport, IP and Fixed Access, Deutsche Telekom, said: “The Tail-f NCS solution, with both services and the network modeled in a standardized high-level language, shortens time to market, increases vendor independence and dramatically improves the cost structure. This SDN solution is a key component in TeraStream’s real-time OSS.”
Hakan Millroth, CTO of Tail-f Systems, said: “Tail-f has been driving standardization of network service programmability for a long time to reduce key pain points such as vendor dependence, lack of service innovation and high operating costs.”
Tail-f NCS provides a new foundation for delivering a unified interface to all network devices and services. NCS leverages YANG (RFC 6020) and NETCONF (RFC 6241) – two powerful standards that address service and device modeling and fail-safe mechanisms – to change network configurations.
