Telecom network vendor Huawei today introduced Flow Engine, its software-defined networking (SDN) traffic optimization engine.
Flow Engine is designed for centralized route computation and resource allocation.
During lab trials of Flow Engine, several network operators have improved network throughput by 60 percent. The new SDN solution will assist telecoms as it is designed for self-adjusting to reflect changing network dynamics. Huawei said its speed and optimality performance can well satisfy the scale of future carrier-grade SDN networks.
Huawei said Flow Engine — built into SDN controllers — serves as a key functional component of Huawei’s SDN solution under the company’s SoftCOM next generation network architecture. Flow Engine unleashes the full benefits of SDN centralized control by advanced optimization algorithms, representing a key milestone in the commercialization of SDN networks.
Huawei’s algorithm suite relies on an array of innovative techniques such as graph transformation, linear programming decomposition and matrix reduction to overcome the intractability of the problem’s scale and reduce the solution time to seconds, making Flow Engine the first traffic optimization engine suitable for carrier-grade networks.
The Chinese telecom network vendor said Flow Engine can automatically detect changes in traffic patterns or magnitude and adjust routing accordingly without human intervention, ensuring the optimal state of the SDN network at all times.
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