Cyan Enables CenturyLink NFV Services to Enterprises

Cyan (See "Cyan Adds Service Management and UBB" - here) and CenturyLink announced that "CenturyLink will leverage Cyan’s Blue Planet NFV Orchestrator to deliver NFV-enhanced services to enterprise and small and midsized business (SMB) customers. Cyan will provide CenturyLink orchestration for their Programmable Services Backbone (PSB). 

..Specifically, CenturyLink will use Cyan’s Blue Planet NFV Orchestrator to bridge multiple technologies to instantiate virtual network functions (VNF) from multiple vendors. Blue Planet will add these virtual network functions to CenturyLink’s network for quickly providing software-enabled services and ubiquitous service coverage to CenturyLink’s broad set of customers.
      

Blue Planet supports multi-vendor NFV Orchestration capabilities. The software can instantiate and control virtual functions, coordinate with physical and virtual network resources, and interconnect virtual functions (i.e., vFirewall, vDPI, vEncryption, vRouter, vDNS, etc.) to achieve service chaining".

See "CenturyLink to Offer NFV-Enhanced Services to Enterprise and SMB Customers with Cyan’s Blue Planet" - here.

TM Announcements: Cyan Adds Service Management and UBB

 

Cyan announced ".. EthernetFLEX℠, A new application embodied in the Cyan 360 software suite and Z-Series™ packetoptical transport platforms (P-OTPs), EthernetFLEX couples robust traffic policing with powerful software-based planning, management, and verification to simplify the delivery of a new wave of Ethernet services.

See also - "MEF Adds Class of Service to Mobile Ethernet Backhaul" - here.

As part of a broader metro transformation toward software defined networks, EthernetFLEX-based services are well suited for business Ethernet, wireless backhaul, and wholesale transport, providing service level guarantees with burstable bandwidth allocations that become the basis for usage-based service models".

"EthernetFLEX employs committed and excess information rate bandwidth allocations. Cyan Z-Series POTPs with high-performance packet service modules track utilization on a per-service basis. Packets in excess of the committed information rate (CIR) are colored yellow but allowed to pass. Yellow packets, which are eligible for discard in the event of congestion, are only counted by the network if they are successfully delivered to their destinations. The CyMS™ network management system gathers and pushes this data to CyPortal™ to track and report usage metrics for the customer’s usage reporting and third-party billing applications"

See "Cyan Unveils EthernetFLEX to Enable New Carrier Revenue Sources" - here.