“It would not be an exaggeration to say that Nuage Networks has contributed mightily to parent company Alcatel-Lucent’s resurgence. Stratecast knew, when selecting Nuage for its 10 to Watch in 2014, that the company’s initial focus and impact would be in the enterprise cloud. However, we believed that impact would create sufficient awareness in telecom operations that it would be worth watching. Nuage did not disappoint. After much success in enterprise and cloud networks, Sunil Khandekar, CEO of Nuage Networks, announced in the fall of 2014 that it was time for Nuage to expand its scope to branch networking (SDN in all branches of networks, not just data centers), and help CSPs embrace the cloud and SDN to better address the needs of the enterprise market in this way.”
“Nuage Networks permits players of all sizes – from huge to smaller/midsize operators – to really leverage the innovations that are in place already. Whatever you are trying to do and whatever you have today, Nuage will help you reach those goals much faster.”
PLUMgrid is a leader of secure and scalable SDN for OpenStack clouds. Founded in 2011, PLUMgrid provides software networking solutions that enable hybrid data centers to connect tenants, applications, and workloads efficiently across hypervisors, virtualized, bare metal, and container based architectures. PLUMgrid is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif. and is funded by venture capital and strategic investors.
Founded in 2010, Midokura was an early global leader in network virtualization. The company’s pedigree includes Amazon, Cisco, Google and VMware. With its Midokura Enterprise MidoNet (MEM) solution, Midokura offers the industry a complete overlay technology that integrates with cloud platforms, such as OpenStack. Now gaining awareness in 122 countries, the source code for MidoNet is freely available at www.midonet.org. MidoNet delivers the first truly open, vendor-agnostic network virtualization solution available to the OpenStack community. Midokura is a contributing member of the OpenStack Networking (Neutron) Project and the Kuryr Project.
VMware SD-WAN is the application of software based network technologies that virtualize WAN connections. VMware SD-WAN decouples network software services from underlying hardware to create a virtualized network overlay. Enabling the connection of users anywhere to applications, VMware SD-WAN offers flexibility, simplicity, performance, security, and cloud scale. It also boasts ease of deployment, central management and control and assured application performance.