BURLINGTON, MA and MONTREAL, QC --(Marketwired - November 15, 2016) - RIFT.io, the open source network service orchestration experts, and Accedian, the end-to-end network performance assurance experts, today announced a joint solution to deliver network functions virtualization (NFV)-ready network performance monitoring. Accedian and RIFT.io make it simple for service providers to rapidly instantiate and deploy the Accedian SkyLIGHT VCX™ virtual performance assurance controller (vPAC) to monitor the end-to-end performance of physical and virtualized network services.
RIFT.ware is a model-driven, ETSI-compliant NFV management and network orchestration (MANO) solution that simplifies deployment of virtual network functions (VNFs) and the composition and management of complex network services. Accedian's SkyLIGHT VCX Controller is the industry's first performance assurance solution employing NFV to bring advanced monitoring capabilities network-wide, without the need for expensive high-end test equipment.
"As cloud based network services become the norm, service providers and enterprises will rely on the cloud as much as the WAN," said Keith Donahue, VP of Marketing and Product Management, Accedian. "Assuring end-to-end quality of service (QoS) and quality of experience (QoE) is even more critical as private and public clouds, as well as infrastructure as-a-service (IaaS), becomes part of this reality. Businesses need a way to assure that these links, and the applications they support, are working as intended and service providers need to react quickly to changing demand. Accedian's SkyLIGHT VCX combined with RIFT.io's RIFT.ware NFV orchestration provides service providers flexibility to instantaneously add service assurance capabilities in response to this often unpredictable growth in new services."
The collaboration between RIFT.io and Accedian introduces a powerful virtualized performance assurance solution for service provider and enterprise networks, delivering the following benefits:
- Dynamic instantiation and elasticity - RIFT.ware brings elasticity to SkyLIGHT VCX™ deployments so customers can dynamically create new VCX instances, on-demand, as sites are added and performance KPIs are generated.
- Performance-assured infrastructure (centralized testing) - When orchestrated by RIFT.ware's solution, SkyLIGHT VCX provides centralized performance data capture, monitoring the entire NFV access architecture -- including physical and virtual network resources at branch offices, central offices, data centers, and public cloud locations such as Amazon Web Services.
- Performance-assured customer premises (site-to-site) - SkyLIGHT VCX, orchestrated by RIFT.ware, can also capture performance data generated between any two sites, making it possible to monitor the entire NFV access architecture, physical and virtual.
- Fully-assured customer premises - Deployed together, RIFT.ware and SkyLIGHT VCX also deliver other hardware assist services such as Accedian's FlowMETER™ (flow-based bandwidth utilization), and FlowBROKER™ (a distributed, intelligent packet capture feature) inherent in Accedian's Nano smart SFPs and ant Modules.
- RIFT.ware can dynamically add virtualized customer premises equipment (vCPE) services -- such as firewall and intrusion detection -- as well as packet inspection VNFs to provide Layer 4-7 visibility for enterprise services on top of assured last mile access.
"As service providers accelerate their deployments of virtualized services, end-to-end visibility and performance monitoring is critical to maintaining carrier-grade service levels and quality of experience (QoE)," said Vincent Spinelli, SVP of Global Sales and Marketing, RIFT.io. "RIFT.ware adds cloud features such as dynamic instantiation, elasticity, and scalability so Accedian can provide the most flexible and comprehensive NFV performance monitoring solution to its service provider and enterprise customers."
Additional Resources
- Blogs: Rift.io ( http://www.riftio.com/category/blog ) and Accedian ( http://blog.accedian.com )
- Rift.io Websites: www.riftio.com and its Intel Network Builders page, https://networkbuilders.intel.com/ecosystem/rift.io
- Accedian Website: http://www.accedian.com
- Rift.io Social : Twitter (@RIFT_io), Facebook , LinkedIn
- Accedian Social: Twitter (@Accedian), Facebook , LinkedIn , YouTube
About RIFT.io RIFT.io provides the open source standard platform for the construction and automated deployment of scalable, virtualized network services. RIFT.io technology and services empower enterprises to successfully deploy virtualized network services on private and hybrid cloud, and accelerate service providers' efforts to deploy NFV-enabled virtualized networks. Any network application built with RIFT.io technology can intelligently take advantage of any cloud's unique capabilities and operate at any scale. RIFT.io is a privately held, global company with offices in the United States and India. For more information about Rift.io, visit http://riftio.com/ . Follow us at @RIFT_io.
About Accedian Accedian delivers exceptional end-to-end network performance visibility, for control over the best possible user experience. Providing the most complete, current view of network health, Accedian dramatically improves visibility with actionable insights for peak reliability and quality of service (QoS). Accedian enables control over increasingly complex networks to increase agility, and reduce cost. Most importantly, through a fully optimized and performance assured network, Accedian proactively ensures maximum uptime and for peak quality of experience (QoE). Since 2005, Accedian has assured hundreds of thousands of networks and services globally, turning performance into a key competitive differentiator. For more information, visit Accedian.com. Twitter: @Accedian .
RIFT.io Media Contact John Noh John.noh@riftio.com 408.242.3852 Accedian Media Contacts Alex Sowden CC Group accedian@ccgrouppr.com +44 7717 723 440 Natalie Mountain Accedian 514-331-6181 ext. 674 nmountain@accedian.com
