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IP Infusion Unveils OcNOS, Full-Featured Network Operating System, to Accelerate Adoption of Open Compute Project in Data NetworksIP Infusion, Inc., a leading provider of intelligent network software for telecom and data communications services, today unveiled OcNOS™, the first, full-featured network operating system for data center and enterprise networking, including advanced capabilities such as extensive protocol support for MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching). OcNOS brings the power of the Open Compute Project, an open hardware movement and foundation, to data networking to reduce operational complexity. Enterprises and service providers operating modern data centers need to create an infrastructure that has higher capacity, is less complex, and allows for fast and affordable addition of standard and new services. They require an approach that supports new, more fluid application architectures with greater agility and efficiency. Flexible programmable network is vital in providing service agility. Incumbent networking solutions are generally proprietary in nature with an emphasis on tight integration between custom hardware and software, leading to network solutions that are expensive, complex, without common management toolkits to orchestrate, automate, administer, operate, monitor and maintain. This complexity at the management plane, leads to increased vulnerability to both systems and operator errors, and high CapEx and OpEx cost structures. OcNOS solves these problems by providing the crucial enterprise and carrier grade network operating system. Customers can take advantage of the price/performance of the "bare-metal" hardware as well as the agility and automation of the new generation of "software-defined" enterprise and data center software and the power of native Linux-based toolsets to create flexible network architectures. "Today, enterprises with very large data centers need to lower their capital expenditures and operating costs, but they still need to keep their traditional networking components while they transition to new disruptive networking technologies, such as the Open Compute Project," said Kiyo Oishi, CEO and president of IP Infusion (News - Alert). "OcNOS empowers customers to fulfill the promise of a software-defined network data center and represents a fundamental shift in how service providers will build their large-scale data centers with their specific requirements in mind without being locked in with one vendor." OcNOS, is a modular, multitasking networking operating system, that fills the void for an enterprise and service provider class standalone networking system that's fast, easy, affordable, and gives network equipment manufacturers and network carriers the tight integration capabilities with commodity hardware they need to develop highly robust, scalable, redundant solutions that can be used in multiple deployment scenarios. With the flexibility, extensive feature set, high degree of scalability and modularity that OcNOS offers, network carriers will be able to more easily implement large-scale IT deployments based on the Open Compute Project. Network providers also benefit from the robustness of an established operating system since OcNOS is built upon IP Infusion's popular and proven ZebOS® line of networking products. OcNOS gives its customers the foundation for a network that is much faster, simpler and more affordabe that current solutions. Comments from some of the network hardware partners are as follows:
OcNOS brings support for:
For more information on how IP Infusion is delivering on OcNOS, please visit IP Infusion's website. IP Infusion will be demonstrating OcNOS at Interop (News - Alert) on April 28 - 30, 2015 in Las Vegas at Booth #1163. About IP Infusion IP Infusion is the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) company relied on for more than a decade by equipment manufacturers to help deliver products faster with lower costs and better differentiation. Over 250 customers, including all major networking equipment manufacturers, use IP Infusion's SDN platform ZebOS to build products that address the evolving needs of cloud, carrier and mobile networking. IP Infusion's technology is deployed in networks with the highest levels of reliability across five continents that transport billions of mobile messages and provide the foundation for public, private and hybrid clouds. IP Infusion is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., and is a wholly owned and independently operated subsidiary of ACCESS CO., LTD. Additional information can be found at www.ipinfusion.com. IP Infusion, ZebOS, VirNOS and OcNOS are trademarks or registered trademarks of IP Infusion. All other trademarks, service marks, registered trademarks, or registered service marks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.
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