IBM Microsoft Cisco and other technology companies to build alliances to promote SDN technology-News Center

"Sadie Online News" April 9, according to foreign http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/31646.html "> Media reports, Cisco, IBM and Jie, together with other technology companies, have formed a consortium to launch the Software Definition Network (SDN) market, designed to make network management easier and cheaper.

Other members of this development platform called "opendaylight" include Juniper Networks, VMware, Microsoft, Red Hat, Intel and Brocade, and private enterprise Big Switch NX and Arista NX.

These companies said in Monday that each member would contribute code to the project and share basic research and development costs, making the products of different manufacturers compatible with each other. However, manufacturers can also customer their own products to make their products and competitors of the product differences.

Software definition networks are a new market, according to IDC, a market-research firm. However, the size of the market to 2016 is expected to grow from $360 million trillion this year to $3.7 billion trillion.

The first code for the Opendaylight platform is expected to be released in the third quarter of this year.

' It would be interesting to see how this platform works in practice, ' said Brad Casemore, a senior network analyst at IDC. There is scepticism about the Internet industry's alliance in this regard, because they have never been united before.

Software-defined network products can reduce the number of data center network devices by replacing many network device features with software that is concentrated in one or more servers.

The technology has been on the Nicira since VMware last August, using 1.26 billion of billions of dollars to acquire software to define a web start-up.