SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OPEN COMPUTE SUMMIT 2018 – Apstra® Inc., a pioneer in Intent-Based Networking announced today a demonstration of Apstra AOS® supporting SONiC (Software for Open Networking in the Cloud) on Mellanox switches, as part of a multi-vendor Intent-Based Networking data center offering.
"Apstra is a big believer in network disaggregation. Our mission is to deliver massively automated turnkey infrastructure operations that are hardware independent, and we continuously add new network operating systems to our hardware compatibility list, based on customer demand,” said Mansour Karam, CEO and founder of Apstra. “Today at the OCP Summit 2018, we are showing a demonstration of AOS with SONiC, an open source container-based cloud networking stack solution led by Microsoft, along with Mellanox hardware, that represents the increased demand for our multi-vendor Intent-Based Networking solution."
Industry Quotes:
Microsoft Corporation - Yousef Khalidi, Corporate Vice President for
Azure Networking
"We are pleased to see Apstra play a key role
in helping the SONiC ecosystem grow. Apstra’s networking solution
supports industry needs for automation and analytics and will help bring
the benefits of SONiC to enterprise data center deployments.”
LinkedIn - Shawn Zandi, Principal Architect and SONiC Community
Manager
“Customer demand for SONiC continues and
Apstra’s turnkey automation and analytics demonstrate the relevance,
ease and reliability of SONiC in enterprise and service provider data
center deployments.”
Mellanox - Kevin Deierling, VP of Marketing
“Mellanox is
committed to supporting innovative network disaggregation to improve
agility, cost, performance and interoperability for our customers.
Apstra’s demonstration shows the value our solutions bring as we embrace
best-of-breed technology in open networking. See Mellanox’ OCP
announcement here.
Join a webinar on March 27th to learn more about why Yahoo Japan Corporation selected Apstra for multi-vendor intent-based networking. Join a webinar on April 25th with Mellanox or come see us at the OCP Summit March 20-21 in booth C11 or at Cisco Live in Orlando at booth #1055.
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AOS®
delivers a turnkey Intent-Based distributed operating system and a data
center application suite that offer game-changing network service
agility, increased uptime and dramatically improved infrastructure TCO.
AOS automatically prevents and repairs network outages for dramatically
improved infrastructure uptime. It operates a network as one system,
massively improving infrastructure agility while reducing operational
expenses. AOS’ distributed data store is a repository of all intent,
configuration, and telemetry state, and hence acts as a single source of
truth for your network. Its self-documenting nature streamlines
compliance tasks. AOS is hardware-independent and works across all major
vendors as well as open alternatives.
About Apstra, Inc.
Apstra® pioneered Intent-Based Networking
and Intent-Based Analytics™ to simplify how data center networks are
built and operated. AOS® increases business agility through an
autonomous or Self-Operating Network™ that delivers log-scale
improvements in CapEx, OpEx and capacity. AOS is a hardware-inclusive,
closed-loop intent-based distributed operating system that automates the
full lifecycle of network operations and enables the network to
configure itself, fix itself and defend itself. Apstra is based in Menlo
Park, California and is privately funded.
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