Best Network Virtualization Software

Full-Stack Network and Security Virtualization with VMware NSX. Enable your virtual cloud network to connect and protect applications across your data center, multi cloud, bare metal, and container infrastructure. VMware NSX Data Center delivers a complete L2-L7 networking and security virtualization platform — providing the ability to manage the entire network as a single entry from a single pane of glass. Bring one-click provisioning to your networking and security services — access powerful flexibility, agility, and scale — by running a complete L2-L7 stack in software, decoupled from underlying physical hardware. Manage consistent networking and security policies across private and public clouds, from a single pane of glass, regardless of where your application runs – VM, container, or bare metal. Deliver granular protection for your apps via micro-segmentation to the individual workload.

Transform your network and prepare for the era of end to end network automation with the Nuage Networks Virtualized Services Platform (VSP). With VSP you can provide SDN and SD-WAN network automation across networks and clouds of all sizes and architectures from data center private clouds to large enterprise WANs to the largest public clouds in the world. Offered through over 70 Managed Service Provider Partners worldwide, our open, secure and multi-cloud enabled wide area networking solution gives your business all the benefits of SD-WAN, plus the flexibility to choose the approach that best meets your digital transformation needs. The Nuage Networks Virtualized Services Platform (VSP) is the industry leading network automation platform enabling a complete range of SDN, SD-WAN, and cloud solutions. VSP provides advanced network automation across networks and clouds of all sizes and architectures, from datacenter private clouds to large enterprise wide area networks (WANs).

Converged Cloud Fabric (CCF)™ is an automated fabric built with cloud networking design principles. CCF leverages VPC/VNet constructs on-prem to deliver a cloud Network-as-a-Service operational model. CCF automates networking for multiple private cloud platforms, enabling the network to operate at the speed of VMs and Containers. With built-in analytics and telemetry, CCF provides real-time contextual visibility across the fabric and one-click troubleshooting workflows. With CCF, NetOps, DevOps and CloudOps teams can effectively collaborate, and rapidly on-board applications and tenants. CCF enables mainstream and midsize organizations to leverage network as a strategic pillar of the digital transformation strategy. With CCF's self-service networking and contextual intelligence, NetOps team can focus on innovations such as new services and analytics, instead of time-consuming manual tasks.

Contrail Networking provides dynamic end-to-end networking policy and control for any cloud, any workload, and any deployment, from a single user interface. It translates abstract workflows into specific policies, simplifying the orchestration of virtual overlay connectivity across all environments. You can apply and control end-to-end policies across physical and virtual environments. Contrail Networking’s software-defined networking (SDN) capability, based on the open-source network virtualization project Tungsten Fabric, enables you to securely deploy your workloads in any environment. It offers continuous overlay connectivity to any workload, running on any compute technologies from traditional bare-metal servers, virtual machines, to containers. The unified operations and management tool, Contrail Command, is a simple-to-use interface.