CALIENT, Spirent jointly launched the software-defined optical device testing scheme

MEMS optical switching vendors CALIENT has announced and Spirent test instrument manufacturers together to create a joint for automated optical network hardware test environment optical switching solutions. Calient optical line S-series switches with Spirent's Velocity speed test platform coordination software, Velocity platform Calient S320 and S160 optical circuit switch-based control, provides the physical layer topology reconfiguration optical network test environment.

Calient and Spirent's joint testing program for more than 40Gbps optical transmission equipment test environment, the software can automatically adjust the test line, thereby reducing the risk of wiring error ride, speed testing, to achieve centralized test management.

Spirent's Velocity is a laboratory that is serving Lab-as-a-Service LAAS test coordination platform, can achieve a variety of physical and virtual testing equipment management and monitoring.

Calient company said the network equipment vendors are quick to support 100Gbps and SDN technology upgrade, which means a lot of new opportunities related to testing. Spirent's industry-leading Velocity platform with a unique Calient MEMS-based all-optical switching products are the next generation network equipment powerful test solution.

Lightreading invite you to explore the white-box strategy

Telecommunications equipment industry and network equipment industry is experiencing a "white box" of the revolution: the original design and manufacture hardware devices being generic white box server switch plus device-specific SDN posed by open source software gradually replaced. White-box device with greater flexibility, enabling faster service provisioning, and thus can lead to greater business opportunities for customers. Currently, users are white-box equipment from the traditional enterprise network, data center users gradually to the wide area network, operator core network expansion.

White box equipment already in the data center is the major Internet companies, including China, including the widespread use of BAT. Facebook advocated OCP platform, Baidu and other plans to build a Scorpio, are aimed at white-box applications. These Internet companies generally use OEM manufacturers to help them carry out the production of white box equipment. Future, this model can be extended to the field of telecommunications equipment, I believe that is the issue we are concerned about. By then, the entire telecom equipment industry may be changing.

In exchange, for example, the traditional switch mainly by a dedicated chip or ASIC chip built hardware platform plus composition embedded operating system and management software. With the development of SDN / NFV technology, the importance of software in the switch products is growing. Some switch manufacturers such as Arista, has already started to collect software and hardware costs to the user, respectively.

Switch on the white box chain, Broadcom, Cavium, as well as Suzhou Centec have achieved a leading position. Broadcom, Intel, Marvell, Mellanox, and Suzhou Centec are based SDN / NFV switch chip providers. HeavyReading April this year, a report once called chip Centec has a lower cost. Third-party software providers such as 6Wind, Big Switch Networks as well as IP Infusion Inc., Pica8. Arista, Compass also OS on a system to make innovations.

Lightreading website will be available this November 17, organized by the service provider network whitepack day strategy seminar in California, Santa Clara, invite white-box manufacturers and users around the world to discuss the opportunities and challenges of white box equipment brought to the network industry . Entire white-box industry chain, including device manufacturers, switch manufacturers, software providers, system integrators, operators are invited to the column by.

Cisco and INSPUR set up a joint venture company

During the time when the Chairman Xi Jinping visited the United States, Cisco and INSPUR jointly announced the establishment of China joint venture. The cooperation included in the Chinese market to resell Cisco's network equipment and jointly develop hardware and so on. This partnership will enable Cisco and INSPUR expand business coverage, and have a significant impact on the pattern of Chinese IT infrastructure market.

Since the 1990s, China has benefited from substantial investment in the network market, Cisco's business in China continued to maintain rapid growth. However, after 2013 the situation was reversed Snowden event, Cisco performance worsened in China, and continues to decline today. IDC data show that the first half of 2015 sales of Cisco's network equipment in China was only 81.3 percent in the first half of 2013, market share fell from 28.5% to 19.4%; At the same time, China's overall Internet market grew by 19.5%, Huawei, Rui Jie, ZTE and other domestic manufacturers market share increased from 27.2% to 46.3%. Chinese networking equipment market accounted for 10% of the world, there is still much room for development the United States and Europe. In recent years, China's Internet market has entered a stable period of development, but the growth rate is still far higher than the global level, especially in the data center, for any one of the international companies in terms of Chinese market can not be ignored.

One as a mainstream server vendors, INSPUR also looking for a new growth point. Because there is no network product line, formerly INSPUR in competition with Huawei, HP and other vendors can not help but binding the hands. Collaboration with Cisco will help INSPUR improve their infrastructure product line. Cisco's networking products in conjunction with INSPUR own server, storage, cloud computing and other product lines, to provide users with more convenient INSPUR overall package solution. For INSPUR, the Cisco networking products is the best choice of partners, Cisco's leading technology products, but because of policy restrictions can not display their fists. INSPUR good government through their own relationships to help sell Cisco products, while INSPUR can learn from technology and experience to develop their own products.

After the collaboration, Cisco and INSPUR will benefit. Cisco aid INSPUR can re-enter the market-related part of the government, is expected to return to the growth track, INSPUR may be in the server project sales of network equipment, add new sources of revenue. Early industry is expected the cooperation will focus on government and finance, Cisco in these two sectors, the affected self-control policy, business serious decline. In these two sectors in the two sides will focus on the data center market, so INSPUR can use their own existing client resources quickly into the market, in the data center network investments accounted for most of the switch, so that the data center switch will be the focus of bilateral cooperation products.

Cisco phasing out of these two years, Huawei, ZTE and Rui Jie, quick to seize its market share in the government and financial sectors, and now Cisco borrow INSPUR comeback, bound to give these companies create new pressures. H3C due to changes in ownership, etc., the first half of 2015, a drop in performance, this time in terms of Cisco's access to H3C will be worse. Network market contest resumed, arrived in the hands of the domestic manufacturers can keep market share, will begin to be more comprehensive test of the strength of the manufacturers. Competition will become more intense, thus further driving down prices, users can buy more cost-effective products, from this perspective, users will benefit from it.

Of course, before the joint venture has many problems, such as how the price setting, whether it will affect the existing channels, the depth of integration and other solutions can, how to solve these problems will test the sincerity and intelligence cooperation.

"China's Internet market, after nearly three decades of development, has been to the eve of change", IDC research manager Hu Xiangdong of China's Internet market, "said the transition to the third stage from the second stage, ICT depth of integration, SDN technology development period, network competition big change to take place, only close grasp of user needs, the introduction of competitive products and solutions, in order to have a foothold in the market. "