[December 19, 2013]

DukeNet Presents Live Demonstration of SDN Orchestration Across the WAN and Data Center

DukeNet Communications, a leading regional fiber provider of high-bandwidth connectivity solutions for enterprise, data center and carrier businesses in the Southeast, today announced that it is conducting a software-defined network (SDN) proof-of-concept demonstration that will illustrate SDN orchestration across the wide area network (WAN) and the data center.

"Conducted in a real world multi-vendor environment, the event validates our ability to dynamically spin up data center virtual machines (VMs) along with virtualized network resources for customers," said David Herran, Vice President of Network Architecture and Technology Planning. "This capability ultimately will allow us to offer new, flexible, and elastic services to customers and will provide an important new means to monetize our network investment."

Leveraging technology from partners Cyan (NYSE:CYNI) and Accedian Networks, the SDN use case demonstration involves applications running on an enterprise server dynamically placing requests for additional cloud dat center virtual machines and associated network resources using OpenStack application program interfaces (APIs) and OpenFlow across the DukeNet network.

Cyan's Blue Planet SDN Platform services the request on behalf of network resources and proxies the compute and data center network demands to an OpenStack server in the cloud data center. Blue Planet performs all functions necessary to turn up additional services across DukeNet's network including carrier Ethernet and optical edge devices from Accedian Networks (News - Alert). The data center instance of OpenStack negotiates with compute resources and data center switches to allocate the necessary network and compute capacity.

"Cyan is proud to partner with DukeNet on such a cutting-edge and important industry demonstration," said Michael Hatfield, President and co-Founder, Cyan. "The carrier space is looking for proof that SDN can help them create new services and reduce costs. At the same time, enterprise customers are looking for networks that are as elastic as their data center and compute resources. This demonstration goes a long way in proving that these types of services can be realized through SDN technology."

About DukeNet Communications

Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., DukeNet is a leading regional fiber network provider offering advanced data and high-capacity bandwidth services to enterprise, data center, government and carrier customers. Primarily serving the southeastern United States, DukeNet controls an 8,000 route mile fiber-optic network capable of delivering 100 Gbps services, enabling cloud computing and high-bandwidth applications for enterprise business. More information about DukeNet is available at www.dukenet.com. Follow us on Twitter (News - Alert) @DukeNetComm.

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