BARCELONA, Spain, March 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- At Mobile World
Congress 2015 today Cisco and Equinix, Inc., the global
interconnection and data center company, announced that Equinix has
deployed the Cisco Tail-f Network Control System (NCS) as part of
the foundational technology powering the Equinix Cloud Exchange –
the Equinix Programmable Network. This technology enables the
automated network and service provisioning for cloud providers and
their enterprise customers that Cloud Exchange has become known
for. Tail-f Systems, now part of Cisco, provides multi-vendor
service orchestration and network automation solutions based on
NETCONF and YANG.
Equinix Cloud Exchange is an advanced interconnection solution
that enables seamless, on-demand and direct access to multiple
cloud services and networks across the globe. Equinix chose the
Tail-f technology for its vendor neutrality, providing a single
network-wide interface to all network devices, applications and
services, as well as a common modeling language. This enables
Equinix to provide multi-cloud services in an agile and
vendor-agnostic way, simplifying and accelerating cloud access for
the enterprise.
Enterprises today are looking to move workloads to the cloud to
achieve business agility, improve application performance and
control costs. Because no one single cloud provider can help a
company achieve these goals, many enterprises are pursuing a
multi-cloud architecture, in which applications span multiple
private and public clouds. Equinix Cloud Exchange, with direct
access to leading cloud providers such as AWS, Cisco, Google Cloud
Platform, Microsoft Azure, SoftLayer, and others, enables
enterprises to realize their multi-cloud goals.
Equinix Cloud Exchange enables this via its SDN foundation, the
Equinix Programmable Network. The combination of Tail-f NCS
together with Equinix's SDN-based architecture, enables the
enterprise to instantaneously provision new and direct connections
to the cloud, something that otherwise could take weeks to
achieve.
Highlights / Key Facts
- Tail-f's NCS provides multi-vendor, multi-service
programmability to the Equinix Programmable Network, the foundation
for Equinix Cloud Exchange. This provides enterprise customers with
agility and vendor neutrality that allows for rapid deployment and
provisioning of multi-cloud environments.
- NCS allows Equinix to deploy an architecture that is YANG and
NETCONF compliant, which addresses the issues around automation and
programmability when real-time configuration is essential.
- Equinix Cloud Exchange is currently available in 19 markets –
Amsterdam, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Frankfurt, Hong
Kong, London, Los Angeles, New
York, Osaka, Paris, Sao
Paulo, Seattle, Silicon
Valley, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto and Washington, D.C. – with additional expansions
planned for Melbourne and
Zurich in early 2015.
Quotes
- Ihab Tarazi, chief technology
officer, Equinix
"Our goal with the Equinix Cloud Exchange is to provide
multi-cloud interconnectivity solutions that satisfy
high-performance application needs in a secure environment. Tail-f
NCS is a key part of our foundational programmable network and
allows us to provide multi-cloud services in an agile and
vendor-neutral way. Tail-f's support for YANG also allows us to
quickly define new services without the burden of vendor-specific
configuration protocols.
- Fredrik Lundberg, director,
Strategy and Planning, Cisco
"We have worked intensely with Equinix over the past six
months to develop a foundational architecture for the Equinix Cloud
Exchange. Our model-based orchestration solution, Tail-f
NCS, gives Equinix superior speed and flexibility. We are excited
to work with Equinix to deliver on the promises of SDN."
Note to Editor: The Tail-f Network Control System
(NCS) is transitioning to the Cisco portfolio and will soon be
marketed under the name "Cisco Network Service Orchestrator (NSO)
enabled by Tail-f."
Additional Resources
- Equinix Programmable Network (EPN): A dynamic foundation
for multi-cloud [blog]
- Read blog series: Cisco at MWWC 2015 at Cisco SP360 Blog:
http://blogs.cisco.com/sp
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targeted updates and announcements
- Subscribe to Cisco's SP360 feed
About Cisco
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About Cisco Tail-f NCS
NCS provides a single
network-wide interface to all network devices and all network
applications and services, as well as a common modeling language
and datastore for both services and devices. A transaction engine
handles transactions from the operations at the service layer to
the actual deployment of configuration changes in the network.
Designed to be a generic solution that can be used in any type
of network, NCS supports the implementation of network applications
and service on a wide variety of networking devices, both
traditional hardware-based devices and virtual software
appliances.
About Equinix Cloud Exchange
The Equinix Cloud
Exchange is an advanced interconnection solution that enables
seamless, on-demand and direct access to multiple clouds, across
multiple networks around the globe. By combining the automated
interconnection of cloud, network and managed service providers
with advanced service orchestration for the first time, the Equinix
Cloud Exchange provides enterprises with simple, scalable, direct
access to the multiple cloud services they need to build highly
flexible hybrid cloud solutions. This removes the security,
performance and vendor lock-in concerns holding many organizations
back from fully adopting and reaping the benefits of cloud
services. For more information on the Equinix Cloud Exchange,
please visit
http://www.equinix.com/solutions/by-services/interconnection/exchanges/equinix-cloud-exchange/.
About Equinix
Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), connects
more than 4,500 companies directly to their customers and partners
inside the world's most networked data centers. Today, businesses
leverage the Equinix interconnection platform in 32 strategic
markets across the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific. http://www.equinix.com
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that
involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ
materially from expectations discussed in such forward-looking
statements. Factors that might cause such differences include, but
are not limited to, the challenges of acquiring, operating and
constructing IBX centers and developing, deploying and delivering
Equinix services; unanticipated costs or difficulties relating to
the integration of companies we have acquired or will acquire into
Equinix; a failure to receive significant revenue from customers in
recently built out or acquired data centers; failure to complete
any financing arrangements contemplated from time to time;
competition from existing and new competitors; the ability to
generate sufficient cash flow or otherwise obtain funds to repay
new or outstanding indebtedness; the loss or decline in business
from our key customers; and other risks described from time to time
in Equinix's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
In particular, see Equinix's recent quarterly and annual reports
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, copies of which
are available upon request from Equinix. Equinix does not assume
any obligation to update the forward-looking information contained
in this press release.
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