Centec and TryStack Jointly Introduce Open Cloud Solution

Virtualization is a key technology in enabling cloud computing. It makes some of the resource management tasks easy. With the aim to improve the performance of the network virtualization of cloud computing using hardware based SDN switch platform, Centec Networks and TryStack have developed an OPEN (News - Alert) Cloud Solution based on OpenStack and physical SDN Switch in OpenStack Summit 2013. This solution allows OpenStack deployment to provide higher performance as well as more secure and valuable service to client.

Earlier, OpenStack has been used for computing/storage/networking virtualization. With the innovative "vSpeed" technology provided by Centec's V350 SDN switch, this solution simplifies the networking operations including GRE and MPLS tunnel to SDN switches. This solution also contributes in hardware offloading that saves more CPU resource for computing and storage.

Tao Gu, vice president of business development of Centec Networks, stated, "TryStack is one of the most active OpenStack communities in China whose mission is to advocate Trusted OpenStack Cloud architecture. As a leading innovator of core silicon and whitebox switch vendor, Centec is very pleased to cooperate with TryStack.cn to boost the high quality application service of cloud computing to provide a wide-open and cost-effective overall solution for network virtualization of cloud computing."

Centec V350 SDN switch can seamlessly connect to OpenStack platform via OpenStack plug-in. Further, there is Open source roadmap for Centec SDN Switch software and SDK that will allow users to build fully customized cloud networking solutions. Currently, the latest solution supports tens of thousands of virtual machines and 10K tunnels, with test result of over 50 percent performance improvement.

Du Yujie, the Director of community development of TryStack.cn said in a statement, “As one of the most important part of this solution, the advantages shown by SDN acceleration win the approval from our clients even in the large-scale deployment.”