Best Software-Defined Networking Solutions
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What are Software-Defined Networking Solutions?
Software-defined networking solutions enable organizations to rapidly configure network architecture in order to better handle high volumes of network traffic. Compare and read user reviews of the best Software-Defined Networking solutions currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Cisco ACI
Cisco
Achieve resource elasticity with automation through common policies for data center operations. Extend consistent policy management across multiple on-premises and cloud instances for security, governance, and compliance. Get business continuity, disaster recovery, and highly secure networking with a zero-trust security model. Transform Day 2 operations to a more proactive model and automate troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and remediation. Optimizes performance, and single-click access facilitates automation and centralized management. Extend on-premises ACI networks into remote locations, bare-metal clouds, and colocation providers without hardware. Cisco's Multi-Site Orchestrator offers provisioning and health monitoring, and manages Cisco ACI networking policies, and more. This solution provides automated network connectivity, consistent policy management, and simplified operations for multicloud environments. -
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Cruz Operations Center (CruzOC)
Dorado Software
CruzOC is a scalable multi-vendor network management and IT operations tool for robust yet easy-to-use netops. Key features of CruzOC’s integrated and automated management include performance monitoring, configuration management, and lifecycle management for 1000s of vendors and converging technologies. With CruzOC, administrators have implicit automation to control their data center operations and critical resources, improve network and service quality, accelerate network and service deployments, and lower operating costs. The result is comprehensive and automated problem resolution from a single-pane-of-glass. Cruz Monitoring & Management. NMS, monitoring & analytics -- health, NPM, traffic, log, change. Automation & configuration management -- compliance, security, orchestration, provisioning, patch, update, configuration, access control. Automated deployment -- auto-deploy, ZTP, remote deploy. Deployments available on-premise and from the cloud.Starting Price: $1350 -
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Cruz Fabric Controller
Dorado Software
Cruz Fabric Controller offers true software-defined networking and control to orchestrate fabrics in your local or remote data center, remote edges, and remote sites. With a single-pane-of-glass, you can deploy and update fabrics, manage, monitor, maintain fabrics, and automate operations.Starting Price: $1350 -
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Get DDoS protection; global load balancing; and a suite of security, reliability and performance capabilities designed to protect public-facing web content and applications before they reach the cloud. From a high level, a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is like a traffic jam clogging up a highway, preventing regular traffic from arriving at its desired destination. A DDoS attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a server, service or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of internet traffic. IBM Cloud Internet Services is a simple set of edge network services for clients looking to secure their internet-facing applications from DDoS attacks, data theft and bot attacks, and for those clients needing to optimize their web applications, or ensure global responsiveness and the ongoing availability of their internet-facing applications.
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Trustgrid
Trustgrid
Trustgrid is the SD-WAN for application providers. The Trustgrid platform uniquely addresses the needs of SaaS application providers who rely on remote systems. By combining an SD-WAN 2.0, edge computing, and zero trust remote access into a single platform we allow software providers to manage and support distributed application environments from the cloud to the edge. With the Trustgrid platform you can: • Build cloud to on-premise networks at scale • Manage and support 100s of networks from a single pane of glass • Control on-premise apps and appliances as if they were in the cloud • Run and support Docker containers in any cloud or on-premise • Provide your support teams secure access to edge application environments Simplify connectivity, enhance security, and guarantee network availability with Trustgrid. -
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Nuage Networks Virtualized Services Platform
Nuage Networks from Nokia
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). -
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DxOdyssey
DH2i
DxOdyssey is lightweight software built on patented technology that enables you to create highly available application-level micro-tunnels across any mix of locations and platforms. And it does so more easily, more securely, and more discreetly than any other solution on the market. Using DxOdyssey puts you on a path to zero trust security and helps networking and security admins secure multi-site & multi-cloud operations. The network perimeter has evolved. And DxOdyssey’s unVPN technology is designed with this in mind. Old VPN and direct link approaches are cumbersome to maintain and open up the entire network to lateral movement. DxOdyssey takes a more secure approach, giving users app-level access rather than network-level access, reducing attack surface. And it does all of this with the most secure and performant approach to create a Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) to grant connectivity to distributed apps and clients running across multiple sites, clouds, and domains. -
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ONAP
ONAP
ONAP is a comprehensive platform for orchestration, management, and automation of network and edge computing services for network operators, cloud providers, and enterprises. Real-time, policy-driven orchestration and automation of physical and virtual network functions enables rapid automation of new services and complete lifecycle management critical for 5G and next-generation networks. The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Project brings together top global carriers and vendors with the goal of allowing end users to automate, design, orchestrate and manage services and virtual functions. ONAP unites two major open networking and orchestration projects, open source ECOMP and the Open Orchestrator Project (OPEN-O), with the mission of creating a unified architecture and implementation and supporting collaboration across the open source community. The ONAP Project is a Linux Foundation project. -
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Lumen SD-WAN
Lumen Technologies
Unleash your network potential with Lumen SD-WAN Solutions featuring automated security, optimized performance and intelligent scalability for driving digital innovation. Lumen SD-WAN solutions help reduce complexity and risks of network transformation by securing and coordinating workloads across the full range of connectivity types on a single, automated platform with centralized visibility and control. Learn how to streamline your network operations with SD-WAN. With its unique cloud gateway architecture and innovative Dynamic Multipath Optimization™ (DMPO) capabilities, Lumen SD-WAN with VMware delivers reliable, secure high-performance access to voice, video and other business-critical applications from branch to data center to cloud at scale. Build branch connectivity in minutes with scalable management components designed to support mid- to large-sized organizations. -
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Infinera Transcend Software Suite
Infinera
Transcend Software Suite, accessible, modular, application-based network automation. Transcend the current boundaries of your network's capabilities with Infinera's multi-layer, multi-domain, multi-vendor software suite. The Infinera Transcend Software Suite is a comprehensive software platform, offering network automation solutions that support operational simplification, resource optimization, and fast service delivery, enabling network transformation. Built on cloud-native technologies, Transcend unleashes the power of network automation through applications ranging from network discovery and path computation to closed-loop automation and analytics. Industry-proven open and modular solutions that are easy to deploy. Infinera is a global supplier of innovative networking solutions that enable enterprises, governments, carriers, and cloud operators to scale network bandwidth, accelerate service innovation, and automate network operations. -
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IBM Network Consulting Services provides strategy, assessment planning and design services aligned with your IT and application needs. Consulting services for software defined networking (SDN), Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN), Internet of Things (IoT) and network infrastructure and application optimization help ensure that your network is future-ready for digital and hybrid multicloud deployments. IBM's SDN Services helps enterprise customers build a highly programmable network fabric that spans Data Center/Cloud (SDN-DC), Wide area network (SD-WAN) and Branch Networks (SD-LAN). IBM follows a consulting-led approach to help create cloud-enabled, dynamic, resilient networks that cater to your future business needs. Managed Network Services from IBM can help improve agility, lower costs and reduce complexity across your hybrid cloud, data center, and local and wide area networks.
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NEC ProgrammableFlow
NEC Corporation of America
Enabling modern IT environments, NEC's ProgrammableFlow® networking suite achieves greater organizational agility. As a pioneer of the first commercially available Software-Defined Networking (SDN) solution using OpenFlow protocol, our technology enables full network virtualization and allows enterprises, data centers and service providers to easily deploy, control, monitor and manage secure multi-tenant network infrastructure. Today’s network professionals are constantly challenged to perform a variety of tasks, which, in many cases, are routine tasks that are error prone. Manual tasks steal time away from more valuable activities. NEC’s SDN solution, ProgrammableFlow Networking Suite, streamlines security, reduces operational costs, and optimizes the ability to manage and control networks. Enables faster, easier deployment and management of Unified Communications (UC) networks. Delivers simplified provisioning and dynamic, on demand, allocation of critical network resources. -
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MidoNet
MidoNet
MidoNet is an Apache licensed production grade network virtualization software for Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) clouds. MidoNet decouples your IaaS cloud from your network hardware, creating an intelligent software abstraction layer between your end hosts and your physical network. This network abstraction layer allows the cloud operator to move what has traditionally been hardware-based network appliances into a software-based multi-tenant virtual domain. MidoNet brings production-grade distributed overlay networking to OpenStack. Features such as reduced complexity of physical network, high availability (any server, any network service, any time), scalability through hierarchy, reduced protocols, otimized network traffic with minimal overhead, vastly improved fault tolerance. -
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Junos Space Network Management
Juniper Networks
Junos Space Network Management Platform works with our management applications to simplify and automate management of Juniper’s switching, routing, and security devices. As part of a complete solution, the platform provides broad fault, configuration, accounting, performance, and security management (FCAPS) capability, same day support for new devices and Junos OS releases, a task-specific user interface, and northbound APIs for integration with existing network management systems (NMS) or operations/business support systems (OSS/BSS). The platform helps network operators at enterprises and service providers scale operations, reduce complexity, and enable new applications and services to be brought to market quickly, through multilayered network abstractions, operator-centric automation schemes, and a simple point-and-click UI. -
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NorthStar Controller
Juniper Networks
Network operators need the ability to automate provisioning and managing network service paths for a variety of application- and end user-defined constraints. NorthStar Controller, the industry’s first WAN software-defined networking (SDN) controller for traffic optimization, helps operators achieve this goal. It automates the control of segment routing and IP/MPLS flows in service provider, cloud provider, and large enterprise networks. NorthStar Controller provides you with granular visibility into network traffic flows, while optimizing network capacity through closed-loop automation. It monitors your network in real time, gathering streaming telemetry, IGP, and BGP-LS data from the network and analyzing the data to provision new service paths based on user-defined SLA constraints. With NorthStar Controller, you can run your network hotter, at higher capacity utilization levels, with confidence. -
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GV Orbit
Grass Valley
GV Orbit is a single, consolidated, overarching configuration, control and monitoring package specifically designed for the dynamic orchestration of broadcast media networks, whether they be SDI, hybrid or pure IP. Its underlying architecture, however, is targeted at open standards-based IP systems with many features and functions specifically crafted to make IP easy. Dynamic Orchestration is GV Orbit’s core strength that differentiates it from competitive systems. The ability to build, configure and change systems on-the-fly, whether it’s adding/removing devices or simply changing a name. Device discovery and detection. Easy device addressing, setup and system configuration. Ergonomic graphical screens include device list and topology views with “drill-down”. Live updating including signal renaming and adding new devices. Fully featured routing control for SDI, hybrid or IP router/switch. -
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AudioCodes Software-Defined Voice Network
AudioCodes
Digital transformation for communications and collaboration solutions. Leveraging the principles of Software-Defined Networking (SDN), AudioCodes Software-Defined Voice Network (SDvN) is an open solution designed to help large enterprises undergoing the digital transformation process to simplify the operations of their voice networks and increase call routing efficiency. It achieves this through consolidation of communications silos, connectivity with SIP trunk services and utilization of the corporate IP network to optimize call routing. Through a combination of AudioCodes' session border controllers (SBCs), global end-to-end call routing and policy management, user management, and voice network management tools, SDvN enables the creation of a universal network that connects on-premises and cloud-based communications solutions without having to replace existing platforms. -
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Pica8 PICOS
Pica8
The one-of-a-kind PICOS open NOS with tightly coupled control planes gives network operators surgical, non-disruptive control of their enterprise applications, deep and dynamic traffic monitoring, and even attack mitigation, all in real time. There’s no better way to implement zero-trust networking and software-defined perimeters than PICOS. Our flagship open network operating system installs on 1G- to 100G-interface open switches from a broad array of Tier 1 manufacturers. This fully featured license offers the most comprehensive support for enterprise features on the market. It includes the Debian Linux distribution, with an unmodified kernel for maximum DevOps programmability. Enterprise Edition also includes AmpCon, an Ansible-based automation framework that couples Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP) with the Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) to simplify installation and operation of open network switches across the enterprise. -
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InterCloud
InterCloud
As your enterprise applications are more widely distributed, the demand for flexibility, performance, security and control is higher than ever. InterCloud is the only software-defined cloud interconnect provider delivering a secure, end-to-end managed service. Our API-first platform simplifies and accelerates your network operations, offering enhanced performance and visibility. As a privileged partner of the major cloud service providers (CSPs), we provide optimized connectivity solutions tailored to your organization’s needs. To connect your business-critical applications, InterCloud guarantees end-to-end security and performance of your traffic from your premises to your cloud environments using CSPs’ private connectivity services. To optimize the performance of your business applications accessed via the Internet, InterCloud manages Internet exchange peering design and implementation. -
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Versa SASE
Versa Networks
Versa SASE integrates a comprehensive set of services through VOS™ delivering security, networking, SD-WAN, and analytics. Built to run in the most complex environments, Versa SASE provides the flexibility and elasticity for simple, scalable, and secure deployments. Versa SASE integrates security, networking, SD-WAN, and analytics within a single software operating system delivered via the cloud, on-premises, or as a blended combination of both. Versa SASE delivers secure, scalable, and reliable enterprise-wide networking and security while increasing multi-cloud application performance and dramatically driving down costs. Versa SASE is built as a complete integration of best-of-breed security, advanced networking, industry-leading SD-WAN, genuine multi-tenancy, and sophisticated analytics in a single Enterprise-class carrier-grade operating system (VOS™) that operates at exceptional scale. Learn more about the technology of Secure Access Service Edge. -
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Tungsten Fabric
Tungsten Fabric
Solve your tooling complexity and overload with the simplicity of only one networking and security tool. Save time and swivel-chair fatigue from context switches as you consolidate. TF is a plugin integration overachiever, never implementing the bare minimum. Here is a sample of what it can do that most other SDN plugins can’t. Networks have borders that need crossing. Speaking the same language of proven open protocol standards in the control and data plane is TF’s specialty, so that your domain is never an island. Open source keeps innovation flowing from many directions, and provides the flexibility to shape the outcomes you need, or turn to vendors you trust. Option of Namespace isolation and per-microservice micro-segmentation with choice of TF tenants, networks or security rules -
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HPE Synergy
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
HPE Synergy is a composable, software-defined infrastructure for hybrid cloud environments, enabling you to compose fluid pools of physical and virtual compute, storage, and fabric resources into any configuration for any workload under a unified API, all available as a service through HPE GreenLake. Manage one infrastructure that supports current and next-gen apps, each with vastly diverse infrastructure requirements and service-level objectives. Accelerate application and service delivery through a single interface that precisely composes infrastructure at near-instant speeds. Engineered with software-defined intelligence at its core and powered by HPE OneView, HPE Synergy enables you to stand up services in minutes with a single line of code. Accelerate your business with a developer-friendly infrastructure. The unified API allows you to automate infrastructure operations with an extensive ecosystem of partners. -
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QTS Switchboard
QTS Data Centers
Fully automated software-defined service that connects you to our ecosystem of data centers, public clouds, and QTS IP blended internet service from one port in minutes. Powered by our digitized API-driven Service Delivery Platform, QTS Switchboard enables seamless, self-service provisioning to a multitude of destinations, from a single dedicated port. Our differentiated one port-to-many destination approach enables seamless provisioning of multiple virtual connections for a variety of use cases from one dedicated QTS Switchboard port, in minutes. Rapid interconnection between customers within a QTS data center. Connects two QTS data centers within a metropolitan area. Connect from a QTS data center to local carrier hotels. Connect to other QTS mega data centers in key markets. Seamless connection from a QTS data center to AWS, Azure, Google, and Oracle Cloud. -
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Cradlepoint NetCloud Service
Cradlepoint
Cradlepoint is a global leader in cloud-delivered 4G and 5G wireless network edge solutions. Cradlepoint’s NetCloud™ platform and cellular routers deliver a pervasive, secure, and software-defined Wireless WAN edge to connect people, places, and things – anywhere. More than 25,000 businesses and government agencies around the world, including many Global 2000 organizations and top public sector agencies, rely on Cradlepoint to keep mission-critical sites, points of commerce, field forces, vehicles, and IoT devices always connected. Cradlepoint was founded in 2006, acquired by Ericsson in 2020, and operates today as a standalone subsidiary within Ericsson’s Business Area Technologies and New Businesses. Cradlepoint is headquartered in Boise, Idaho, with development centers in Silicon Valley and India and international offices in the UK and Australia. -
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DX Virtual Network Assurance
Broadcom
DX Virtual Network Assurance extend visibility and ensure reliability of SDN/NFV networks with network monitoring tools by CA Technologies, a Broadcom company. A converged NetOps portal is required in order to successfully deploy modern network architectures. You can use these network monitoring tools to enable seamless management of traditional and advanced technologies like SDN, NFV, SDDC, SD-WAN and the cloud in a one-dashboard experience. Advanced visualizations of complex Cisco ACI environments provide deployment assurance and on-going health awareness. With our network monitoring tools, you can visualize the new network abstraction via discovery and mapping of your Cisco ACI deployments, along with traditional infrastructure. Close the loop among traditional physical network environments and new virtualized networking technologies to reduce complexity in network visibility and planning. -
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Manage, Control and Plan supercharge your Ciena network with automated operations. Plan and deploy customer services quickly. Assure high network performance easily. Gain operational efficiencies. Ciena’s Manage, Control and Plan (MCP) domain controller delivers these business benefits through software control and automation of lifecycle operations. Moreover, it provides the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) foundation for advanced applications which enable optimization of multi-layer network performance. Ciena’s suite of MCP Applications offers software control, analytics and automation to supercharge multi-layer network operations to exceptional levels of operational efficiency. Ciena’s suite of MCP Applications offers software control, analytics and automation to supercharge your multi-layer network operations to exceptional levels of operational efficiency. Getting the most from your investment in Ciena’s Manage, Control and Plan (MCP) is critical.
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Cisco SD-Access
Cisco
A more secure and agile network for your modern enterprise. Your IT operations can be more efficient, your network more secure, and your user experience more consistent across wired, wireless, and VPN infrastructure with our advanced solution for automating user policy and network access. Cisco SD-Access, a solution within Cisco DNA, defines a uniform policy-based network fabric that meets business needs with security, automation, and assurance. SD-Access augments the Cisco DNA Center capabilities of automation and assurance. It also provides a software-defined approach for network segmentation, critical for establishing a zero-trust network. Use AI- and ML-based advanced analytics for endpoint identification and grouping. Analyze traffic flows between groups, and define effective access policies. Apply group-based access policies for effective multilevel segmentation, leading to zero-trust security. -
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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.
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Contrail Networking
Juniper Networks
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. -
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Blue Planet
Ciena
The Blue Planet Intelligent Automation Portfolio is a comprehensive, open software suite that empowers service providers with deep insights about the network to optimize business processes that span IT and Network functions, accelerating your digital transformation. IT and Network operations are no longer constrained in legacy, manually intensive silos. Blue Planet powers closed-loop automation through multi-domain, multi-layer orchestration combined with inventory federation, analytics, and route optimization and assurance, unlocking network potential and business agility. Working across multi-vendor domains, including Ciena’s domain controlled by Manage, Control and Plan (MCP), Blue Planet intelligent automation enables the delivery of a range of end-to-end services with fast time to market and exceptional performance, at reduced operational costs.