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Avaya announced an addition to the company’s SDN Fx™ architecture that it says helps bring businesses one step closer to enabling Unified Access and the Internet of Things – minus the disruption found in many major technology transitions.
The Avaya ERS 5900 series of premium, stackable Ethernet switches takes another significant step toward full network automation by further extending Avaya Fabric Connect capabilities to the network edge. The ERS 5900 series enables enterprises to smoothly migrate to next generation architectures that unify the wired and wireless network while preparing organizations to adopt new Internet of Things strategies. Key features of the ERS 5900 series include:
- Supports MACsec for enhanced security
- Supports Power over Ethernet Plus (POE+) for 802.11ac deployments
- Extensible to support 60W of Power over Ethernet (uPOE) for emerging IoT deployments such as smart lighting, medical systems and high-end video surveillance
- Extensible to support the emerging 2.5GE and 5GE standard for 802.11ac Wave 2 deployments, as is the Avaya WLAN 9100 series
In a press release, the company said, the Avaya SDN FX architecture is the first to deliver automation and programmability from the network core to the user edge, providing “connect anything, anywhere” simplicity. This extensibility makes it much easier to accommodate and configure the escalating number of intelligent devices and users at the edge that need to be connected.
Software defined networking prediction:
According to a recent global Avaya survey, 88 percent of respondents expect to put SDN into production at some point in the future, with the average timeline of approximately 1.6 years. Nearly 45 percent of respondents didn’t have a specific timeframe for deployment; however, 89 percent of C-level executives said that SDN deployment needs to be simple for them to consider adoption. While in India 64 percent of IT professionals want SDN to extend beyond the data center; however, 26 percent of them say the ability to do so today is extremely or moderately limited. In addition, of the challenges that IT pros are looking to SDN to solve, 80 percent insist that SDN programming must be simple before they will adopt.
