A Korean-made SDN (software defined networking) solution, developed jointly by SDN venture firm Kulcloud and ADC maker PIOLINK, will be premiered at Open Networking Summit (ONS) 2013, scheduled to be held next month in the US. The SDN solution, designed for Internet data centers (ICD), comes in the form of a controller combined with a switch.

PIOLINK’s OpenFlow-based switch with an ADC (Application Delivery Controller) has been combined with Kulcloud’s SDN controller. SDN venture firm Kulcloud has joined hands with ADC heavyweight PIOLINK to enter new markets.

The annual Open Networking Summit (ONS), the world’s largest SDN exhibition, began last year. Large-scale suppliers like Google, HP, IBM, Huawei, Ericson and Cisco and SDN-related companies like Vmware (an American software company that provides cloud and virtualization software and services) and Big Switch Networks will participate in the ONS.

Park Seong-young, CTO of Kulcloud said, “We will unveil an IDC-optimized solution that combines SDN with NFV (Network Function Virtualization). Once this technology is applied to mobile networks, it will perform functions similar to highly-sophisticated network operating solutions like “traffic steering,” which was recently disclosed by global companies like Ericson.

2013/03/21 By Kim Si-so
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