MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,
March 31, 2014 /PRNewswire/
-- Nuage Networks, the Alcatel-Lucent (Euronext Paris and
NYSE: ALU) venture focused on software-defined networking (SDN)
solutions, today announced that Numergy has selected its SDN
platform and Alcatel-Lucent's 7750 service router for deployment
within and across its datacenters.
According to Gartner's Forecast: Public Cloud Services,
Worldwide, 2011-2017, 4Q13 Update (December
2013), Cloud System Infrastructure Services (IAAS) end user
spending in Western Europe is
growing at 32.1% CAGR (2012-2017), and the market size will
reach $5.9B by 2017.
Given these promising figures, this year alone, Numergy plans to
open two datacenters, with the goal of 10 additional datacenters in
operation over the next three years. They will be equipped with
Alcatel-Lucent 7750 service routers and Nuage Networks
solutions.
Numergy opted to implement Nuage Networks' Virtualized Services
Platform (VSP) and 7850 Virtualized Services Gateway (VSG) as well
as the Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router to manage and automate
its datacenter networks to be more programmable and operationally
efficient. Nuage Networks' philosophy of building open cloud
environments that avoid lock-in, aligned well with their needs,
wanting to build its infrastructure using open
technologies.
"We are pleased to implement the Nuage Networks product suite in
our cloud infrastructure. The Nuage Networks SDN technology allows
us to address key performance and compatibility requirements for an
open environment. This will allow us to virtualize our
infrastructure and to offer our customers cloud services in a more
dynamic way," said Erik Beauvalot, Chief Operating Officer of
Numergy.
"We are excited to work with Numergy in support of their cloud
initiative, that will allow them to deliver attractive and
innovative cloud services to French and European companies, but
also to make their infrastructure more agile, secure, and
responsive," added Matthieu Bourgignon, head of Sales for
Alcatel-Lucent France.
Numergy requires a network whose capabilities can be abstracted
in alignment with the needs of diverse customer applications. The
Nuage Networks SDN solution provides datacenter network
virtualization and automation that transforms datacenters into
flexible environments that instantaneously establish the network
services required in a cloud infrastructure.
Teaming with Nuage Networks enables Numergy to implement and
scale automated cloud networks across their geo-distributed
infrastructure. Additional benefits include:
- Service provisioning speed and agility: Setting up
networks in an SDN can be as easy and timely as creating virtual
machine (VM). Unlike traditional networks that are highly
configuration driven and manual, Nuage Networks allows network
connectivity to follow seamlessly and instantaneously according to
pre-defined policies.
- Control: The solution provides a common policy framework
through which Numergy maintains full control and visibility of
their infrastructure, while ensuring that performance
and access rules are met.
- Network flexibility and holistic management: SDNs enable
"network experimentation without impact." Nuage Networks allows
Numergy to bypass traditional datacenter network restrictions and
experiment freely with new network configurations that better
support customer scenarios.
- Lowered expenditures: Through a dramatically more
operationally efficient approach, by making optimal use of
datacenter assets, and by reducing dependencies on proprietary
hardware and dedicated appliances, Numergy also expects to
realize economic benefits.
ABOUT NUAGE NETWORKS
Nu-âhj: From French, meaning 'cloud'. Nuage Networks brings a
unique combination of groundbreaking technologies and unmatched
networking expertise to the enterprise and telecommunications
industries. The Silicon Valley-based start up has applied radically
new thinking to the problem of delivering massively scalable and
high programmable SDN solutions with the security and availability
required by business-critical environments. Nuage Networks, backed
by Alcatel-Lucent's (Euronext Paris and NYSE: ALU) rapidly growing
IP division, has the pedigree to serve the needs of the world's
biggest clouds. The cloud has made promises – the mission of Nuage
Networks is to help you realize them.
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