At the Innovation Showcase at the CableLabs Winter Conference, Sedona Systems, a provider of multilayer IP-optical network control and optimization, demonstrated its NetFusion product, a control platform designed to converge network layers, automatically discover multivendor topology and traffic for both optical and IP/MPLS layers, as well as the cross-layer connections between them. The platform is intended to let network operators create and deploy new services more rapidly and to reduce capital and operational costs.
"We are thrilled to have been chosen by CableLabs from hundreds of applicants to showcase our NetFusion software platform," said Yossi Wellingstein, co-founder and CEO of Sedona. "For too long, cable operators have been held back by siloed IP and optical networks that are inefficient, inflexible and expensive. NetFusion smashes this operating paradigm and opens up a new era of coordinated multilayer networking that is much less expensive and supports rapid service creation and deployment."
NetFusionis designed to enable both optically aware IP routing and IP-informed optical switching. Based on centralized open-source software tools, the platform is designed to connect to all major vendors' equipment through SDN controllers or management systems. It then optimizes tasks through dynamic, automatic management of both optical and IP resources.