Mellanox, Red Hat, Connectem and Metaswitch Join Blue Orbit 

Cyan today announced that Connectem, Mellanox Technologies, Metaswitch Networks, and Red Hat have joined Blue Orbit, an ecosystem of partners focused on delivering real-world, multi-vendor SDN and network functions virtualization (NFV) applications. In addition, in cooperation with these new Blue Orbit partners, Cyan is demonstrating two new use cases at the Layer 123 SDN event in Bad Homburg, Germany including, for the first time, Blue Planet NFV Orchestration.

“With Blue Orbit, the SDN and NFV supplier community is really stepping forward to prove interoperability in multi-vendor environments, and demonstrate that SDN and NFV can be leveraged to perform key functions critical to network operations around the world,” said Joe Cumello, chief marketing officer, Cyan. “We welcome our newest members and look forward to the insights their participation will provide network operators looking to lessen risk and accelerate the delivery of production SDN infrastructures.”

Blue Orbit’s four new members are:

• Connectem – Connectem has developed the first ever instance of a Virtualized LTE Evolved Packet Core (EPC) with unique architectural attributes that leverages modern datacenter tools to deliver unprecedented scale, availability and performance using low cost x86 servers. This allows carriers to have a cost effective solution to address the growing demand in both signaling as well as data throughput. The company’s virtualized software is capable of addressing elasticity, scale and service velocity in the largest Mobile Broadband Networks.
• Mellanox Technologies – Mellanox is a leading supplier of high-performance end-to-end interconnect solutions for data center servers and storage systems. Mellanox's SDN solution is an open, industry-standard platform that supports a wide range of applications and network management tasks. It incorporates different techniques for intra- and inter-server communications, provisioning, quality of service (QoS) and virtual network interface card (vNIC) management.
• Metaswitch Networks – Metaswitch is powering the transition of communication networks into a cloud-based, software-centric future. It develops openly programmable solutions that run on standard hardware or in virtualized environments and act as the key control points in elastic voice, video and data networks.
• Red Hat – Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of open source software solutions, taking a community-powered approach to reliable and high-performing cloud, Linux, middleware, storage and virtualization technologies. As the connective hub in a global network of enterprises, partners, and open source communities, Red Hat helps create relevant, innovative technologies that liberate resources for growth and prepare customers for the future of IT.