Category Archives: SDN

ONAP’s Great Potential: What It Means for Service Providers, Vendors & Enterprises

The telecom industry seems to have open source on the brain right now, and the Linux Foundation’s Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) is one of the fastest growing open source projects out there. The orchestration and automation platform, which powers all stages of virtualization initiatives from design to life-cycle management, is poised to transform networks…

Datavision Plays Key Role as Solutions Integrator in Virtualized uCPE with ONAP Orchestration for PoC Demonstration

Frenchtown, NJ – May 3, 2018— Datavision, the industry leading SDN-powered end-to-end networking consultant, announces that it has completed a Proof of Concept (PoC) demonstration showcasing the interoperability between ONAP and MEF 3.0 – Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) architecture, alongside BringCom and ADVA. The PoC demonstration, performed at the recent MEF Member Meeting in Athens,…

IN THE NEWS: Capacity, The Enterprisers Project, JSA TV & Telecom Ramblings

Datavision has been in the news quite a bit this year! Our COO Mark Abolafia has been busy discussing everything from our latest SD-WAN partnerships to SDN/NFV/edge computing adoption to ONAP. (Read about our involvement with ONAP here.) Capacity Mark spoke with Capacity’s Alan Burkitt-Gray at Metro Connect in January about Datavision’s recent partnerships with…

ONAP Continues to Drive Network Virtualization. Here’s Why We Support It.

Though ONAP is officially just over a year old, Datavision has a long history with the open source platform. We’ve been supporting it before it was even called ONAP — our network engineers worked with one of the predecessors, AT&T’s Enhanced Control Orchestration, Management and Policy (ECOMP), before it merged with the Open Orchestrator Project…

The Internet is Broken: A Look at IPsec Overlays, Sessions and the 128T Networking Platform Solution

Overlay networks and IPsec overlays have added complexity, making our networks too fragile and too expensive to deliver the security, control and agility needed to handle cloud, mobile, and IoT applications. In this blog, we’ll take a look at the challenges presented by IPsec overlays, the importance of being session-aware, and how the 128T Networking…

Fix the Router, Fix the Network: The 128T Networking Platform Solution

Which metaphor best describes your network infrastructure? An original equipment manufactured engine purring along like it’s run less than 10,000 miles? Or a patchwork of after- market parts running a little rough and you’re wondering what each new rattle or ping really means? If you were honest, it would be the latter – and you’re…

Datavision Enhances its Portfolio with an Advanced SD-WAN Solution from Silver Peak

Datavision Enhances its Portfolio with an Advanced SD-WAN Solution from Silver Peak  Frenchtown, NJ – January 29, 2018— Datavision, the industry leading SDN-powered end-to-end networking consultant, announces a partnership with Silver Peak, the global leader in broadband and hybrid WAN solutions. With distributed IT implementations on the rise, end users seek cost effective ways to…

Discussing 2018 Networking Trends at Metro Connect 2018: SD-WAN, Edge Computing, 5G & More

How’s the new year treating you so far? We’re starting 2018 off strong by heading to Miami next week to discuss SD-WAN, edge computing, 5G and other next-gen technologies at Metro Connect. Starting January 29, we’ll join 275+ metro fiber providers, financial services companies and other industry players to brainstorm on everything metro — from…

Datavision Partners with 128 Technology to Offer SD-WAN Solution

Datavision Partners with 128 Technology to Offer SD-WAN Solution Frenchtown, NJ — January 23, 2018 — Datavision, a network integration and consultancy company focused on network transformation, announces a partnership with 128 Technology, the Session Smart routing company, to offer the software-based 128T Networking Platform (128T) for the deployment of SD-WAN and other next-generation solutions….

Operationalizing IT Services: SDN Federation/Operability Orchestration

In enterprise network and datacenter environments, the management of networking devices is still highly vendor specific with multiple element management systems communicating with, and controlling their respective families of devices. With the advent of “open” approaches driving the replacement of these devices with commodity hardware, the cost of that replacement relegates that approach to a…