Top 20 SDN Solution Companies - 2019

The modern business ecosystem is turning on the axis of technology, and network requirements are evolving as a result. Software-Defined Networking (SDN) caters to these changing network demands by adding factors like scalability, flexibility, and configurability. Legacy network models are not equipped to optimize business operations that have incorporated artificial intelligence, automation, and other such advanced technologies. On the other hand, SDNs have the intrinsic ability to adapt to the operational requirements of digital enterprises in real-time.

SDN concedes control into the hands of network engineers and network users through a centralized control console. The console allows extensive network configurations and empowers businesses to program functions. Direct advantages of the software-defined capabilities of SDN include comprehensive visibility and network intelligence. Every enterprise can maintain a view of the network, resulting in high reliability and security. Besides, the option of scalability makes SDNs especially advantageous. Businesses that experience sudden growth always have the choice of designing and deploying more network resources.

As virtual environments replace the hardware-defined network infrastructure, SDN offers business opportunities for data centers, carriers, and service providers, as well as business organizations.SDN is already on its way to revolutionizing many aspects of network usage. From an enterprise’s point of view, SDN delivers unmatched potential towards enhancing speed and agility. As service providers vie to optimize their offerings, organizations providing SDN solutions are playing the role of enablers with a high degree of expertise. To assist companies in discovering the best of SDN, CIOReview has put together a list of leading SDN solution providers with inputs from a panel of industry leaders and experts.

We present to you “20 Most Promising SDN Solution Providers - 2019.”

TOP VENDORS

Top SDN Solutions Companies

Acuative

Acuative applies its intuitive reasoning and industry experience, actively seeking opportunities to bring value to the clients and take them forward toward their future. The company helps the businesses always to be mindful of maintaining consistent, responsive communication and forward progress as their partner. They value each individual’s contributions and are committed to their employees’ career journey and personal development. Acuative also offers a powerful combination of expertise, round-the-clock availability, and extensive technical resources, simplifying the entire process of managing technology. They save time and resources by delivering a total SDN solution that’s apt for the client’s business

Radware

Radware is a provider of application delivery and cybersecurity solutions for virtual, cloud, and software-defined data centers. The company solutions portfolio delivers service level assurance for business-critical applications while maximizing IT efficiency. Radware solutions empower more than 10,000 enterprise and carrier customers worldwide to adapt to market challenges quickly, maintain business continuity, and achieve maximum productivity while keeping costs down. Radware’s corporate headquarters are located in the U.S. (Mahwah, NJ), and international headquarters are located in Tel Aviv. Global presence includes offices in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific regions

Tellabs

Tellabs is leading the future of networking with access solutions for today, poised to deliver services for the future. Tellabs’ software-defined network management delivers scalability and LAN agility through software-based actions, M2M automation and plug-and-play of sub-tended IoT devices in smart buildings. The system also improves security as it has fewer points of vulnerability (fewer devices and fewer complex full-functioning devices). Further, it delivers better network stability with high network availability with fewer moving parts with lower operational costs and capital costs

Versa Networks

Versa enables simplicity, speed, and agility for the digital era by transforming how the enterprises build, deploy, and operate WANs and secure branch connectivity services. The software-based networking and security Cloud IP runs on x86 servers or white box appliances, combined with management, orchestration, and analytics. Its broad set of integrated, advanced networking and security services deliver SD-WAN (Software-Defined WAN) and Software-Defined Security (SD-Security) in the co-location, data center, and cloud. Using Versa’s solution, enterprises see up to 80% lower WAN, branch infrastructure and circuit costs, and up to 50% savings over traditional WAN scenarios due to lower-cost Internet circuits, zero-touch deployments, and automation

XipLink

XipLink delivers the industry’s most advanced bandwidth optimization solutions for use on VSAT, Mobile Satellite Services (MSS) and terrestrial wireless networks

Arista Networks

Arista Networks lead the way as software-driven, cognitive cloud networking for large-scale datacenter and campus environments. The platform ranging in Ethernet speeds from 10 to 400 gigabits per second; redefine scalability, agility, and flexibility. Arista has shipped over 20 million cloud networking ports worldwide with CloudVision and a developed network operating system. The company is a founding member of the 25/50G consortium with its products available worldwide directly and through partners. Its platform is an Extensible Operating System (EOS), a ground-breaking network operating system with single-image consistency across hardware platforms that enables in-service upgrades and application extensibility

Aruba

Aruba is a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, is a provider of next-gen network access solutions for the mobile companies. The company builds and delivers Mobility-Defined Networks that help the IT departments and #GenMobile, new-gen tech-savvy users who depend on their mobile devices for every work and communication. To build a mobility experience that #GenMobile and IT can rely on, the company automates the infrastructure-wide performance optimization and boosts the security actions without manual IT intervention. The results have drastically improved productivity and lower operational costs

Big Switch Networks Inc

Big Switch Networks, the Cloud-First Networking (CFN), introduces a new networking architecture for hybrid IT, centered on agile, cloud-style VPC networking best practices to deliver consistent networking, analytics, and ML for public and private cloud infrastructures. They provide differentiated solutions and features to meet the requirements of the most agile and innovative customers. CFN is the answer to enterprise digital alteration, delivering the freedom to develop and host applications anywhere. CFN gives a seamless IT experience for hybrid clouds, where applications running in private and public clouds are continuously managed. CFN delivers a responsive, automated, programmable, and consistent fabric-based network experience

Ciena

Ciena's Adaptive Network vision is constructed to help the users to dynamically respond to exponential growth and rising demand for more effective services, and provide a differentiated customer experience. To harness smarter and more agile networks, without any increasing complexities, companies need to have a network that can adapt to the environment instantly. Created on the most responsive infrastructure in the business, Ciena's Adaptive Network allows users to control the complexity by blending intelligent automation, real-time analytics, and the ability to tune a scalable programmable infrastructure

Cisco Systems Inc

The new workforce is increasingly mobile, and business-critical applications are running over the Internet across multiple clouds. Cisco WAN architectures boost user productivity by optimizing cloud and on-premises application operations with real-time analytics, visibility, and control. The company protects the users, devices, and applications by deploying embedded or cloud security better, with the best threat intelligence. It also provides centralized cloud management to make it easy to install SD-WAN and safety while balancing policy across thousands of sites. It takes care of the flexibility with its cloud-first architecture to connect any user to any application across any cloud