Telecom network vendor Huawei has demonstrated its software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) technologies at the SDN & OpenFlow World Congress in Germany.
At the telecom event, Huawei revealed its new Flexible Ethernet solution and network architecture MobileFlow, as well as several prototype systems of its new technologies.
The Flexible Ethernet solution from Huawei, which supports software-configured combinations of different Ethernet sub-interfaces, marks different data connections and services that need different data traffic, and match them to their correspondent sub-interfaces.
Huawei claims that the Flexible Ethernet revolution will change the industry dominated by the traditional fixed Ethernet and impact the future IP network architecture.
The MobileFlow structure has realized unified deployment of mobile network control functions through cloud, while the previous plane model is only capable of service forwarding and processing.
Huawei said the mobile controller is now able to conduct fine-grained forwarding control of the distributed forwarding devices, and also open the control capability to their application layers.
“Huawei’s SoftCOM strategy will unleash the full potential of SDN and NFV, building an open and flexible network infrastructure for the ICT industry,” said Ken Wang (Shengqing), president of Global Marketing and Solutions, Huawei.
The telecom network vendor worked with more than 20 carriers including Telefonica, China Mobile, China Unicom, and China Telecom, on over 60 joint SDN- and NFV-related projects.
Baburajan K
editor@telecomlead.com
