{"id":14817,"date":"2015-05-27T14:34:02","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T14:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=225931"},"modified":"2015-05-27T14:34:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T14:34:02","slug":"hp-buys-contextreme-in-sdn-nfv-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/hp-buys-contextreme-in-sdn-nfv-play\/","title":{"rendered":"HP buys ConteXtreme in SDN, NFV play"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_185612\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/122\/files\/2014\/05\/HP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-185612\" alt=\"HP is acquiring SDN specialist ConteXtreme \" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/122\/files\/2014\/05\/HP-300x171.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">HP is acquiring SDN specialist ConteXtreme<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>HP has acquired software-defined networking (SDN) specialist ConteXtreme to strengthen its service provider business and network function virtualisation (NFV) offerings.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2007, ConteXtream provides an OpenDaylight-based, carrier-grade SDN fabric controller that works on most hypervisors and commodity server infrastructure. It\u2019s based on the IETF network virtualisation overlay (NVO3) architecture, which includes virtualised network edge nodes that aggregate flows and maps them to specific functions, a mapping subsystem based on the Location-Identity Separation Protocol (LISP), a set of application-specific flow handlers for service chaining, and a high-performance software flow switch.<\/p>\n<p>The company also offers analytics that help monitor traffic and detect anomalies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re moving away from being tied to dedicated machines to having a resource pool with automated, self-service mechanisms. In the networking world, there are countless functions \u2013 firewall, caching, optimization, filtering etc. \u2013 and a bunch of inflexible hardware to do those things. NFV is about saying, \u2018Why can\u2019t we put these various functions in the cloud? Why does each function need to be on specialized and dedicated hardware?\u2019,\u201d explained HP\u2019s telco business lead Saar Gillai.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConteXtream\u2019s scalable and open and standards-based technology delivers innovative capabilities like advanced service function chaining, and is deployed at a number of major carrier networks across the globe. ConteXtream\u2019s technology connects subscribers to services, enabling carriers to leverage their existing standard server hardware to virtualize functions and services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gillai said the acquisition will accelerate its leadership in NFV, and that HP also plans to increase its involvement with OpenDaylight, an open source collaboration between many of the industry\u2019s major networking incumbents on the core architectures enabling SDN and NFV.<\/p>\n<p>The past year has seen HP slowly scale up its involvement with SDN and NFV initiatives.<\/p>\n<p>In September last year the company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/2014\/09\/25\/sdn-channel-strategy-moves-astep-forward-with-hp-sdn-app-store\/\">announced<\/a> the launch of an app store for HP customers to download SDN-enabled and virtual networking applications and tools \u2013 networking monitoring tools, virtual firewalls, virtual load balancers and the like \u2013 developed by HP as well third parties and open source communities. It also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/2014\/11\/07\/hp-wind-river-collaborate-on-open-stack-based-nfv-solution\/\">partnered with Wind River<\/a> to integrate its NFV technologies with HP Helion OpenStack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HP has acquired software-defined networking (SDN) specialist ConteXtreme to strengthen its service provider business and network function virtualisation (NFV) offerings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2645,573,1976,2074,2646,1118,2143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contextream","category-hp","category-news-analysis","category-nfv","category-saar-gillai","category-sdn","category-virtualisation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14818,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14817\/revisions\/14818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}