Best Enterprise Software-Defined Networking Solutions

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Agile, on-demand network services for the branch. Transform the customer experience in your branch offices. Consolidate hardware network functions into a single software platform that can deploy business-critical services in minutes. Deploy, monitor, and optimize network services with software and hardware that's purpose-built for branch deployments. Deploy services on demand and manage changes in minutes, not months, with centralized orchestration and management. Use virtualization so you don't need to deploy IT resources and truck rolls to remote locations. Free up IT resources to work on strategic needs. Meet business objectives with enterprise-grade software services and hardware platforms purpose-built for the branch. With SD-Branch, network functions run inside a virtualized environment.

Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager (EPNM), simplified, converged, multilayer management. Our EPN Manager is designed for element and network management systems. It provides simplified, converged, end-to-end lifecycle management for carrier-grade networks of all sizes. Businesses can improve agility and operational efficiencies through automated device operations, fast provisioning, and proactive assurance. Reduce time to market of network services, and time from device introduction or features updates to actual network deployment. Deliver frequent, domain-specific content asynchronous from the management platform. Resolve network issues faster, and quickly identify affected circuits and virtual connections through automated provisioning of services. Benefit from a shared information model, consistent workflows and UI, and easier deployment. Get integrated, end-to-end management for the entire carrier network, supporting multiple domains, right out of the box.