The new Alcatel Lucent Enterprise technology is introduced to simplify network operations with automation that improves the agility of the entire IT operations.
The Intelligent Fabric Technology provides for simpler network designs, easier interoperability, plug-n-play deployment and automatic reconfiguration with server/device/application moves/adds/changes.
Company said the new technology includes automation, VXLAN Hardware Gateway, VXLAN Overlay Visibility and Quality of Service, Virtual Network Profile, SDN ready and Management of the Intelligent Fabric technology.
The network is created in minutes as the system does the network configuration automatically and Network connection and interoperability of access switches, servers, applications and third party switches/devices are automatically configured.
The Intelligent Fabric technology also provides self healing feature and system detects new, changed or relocated switches, applications, devices and servers and automatically updates the configuration accordingly.
The Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch 6900-Q32 provides an integrated wire-rate VXLAN hardware gateway that bridges physical and virtual worlds.
Company officials said virtual world is created by VXLAN on top of the physical infrastructure to provide business agility for applications running on virtual machines (VMs).
IT has the tools to provide quality of service, security and prioritization and also has a visibility of applications across both physical and VXLAN networks.
The VPN contains the information focusing on how the network should treat traffic coming from virtual machine and VPN is extended to support Secure Virtual Machines.
The Intelligent Fabric technology provides support for standards-based Openflow 1.3, OpenStack plug-in, RESTful APIs and embedded Python scripting capability.
The Intelligent Fabric technology enables businesses to benefit from a single consistent approach for all network infrastructure needs.
The Intelligent Fabric technology is available for the OmniSwitch 6900 and OmniSwitch 0K platforms, including OmniSwitch 6900-Q32 platform.
Last month, Alcatel Lucent introduced OmniSwitch 6900-Q32 platform to bring higher performance and scalability to the Enterprise network with innovative Intelligent Fabric technology.
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