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The Application-Driven Need for Real-Time Networks

Not long ago, only cloud data centers, which process vast amounts of data in real time, faced critical predictability, responsiveness and flexibility challenges in their data networks. Today, thanks to the ‘device revolution’ and nonstop growth in data, virtually every enterprise is facing these same challenges. In order to stay competitive, businesses must make data-driven decisions quickly and effectively, but the traditional IT infrastructure – hardware-based, inflexible and difficult to scale – has reached its limits.

In order to tame the data tsunami, businesses must reorient their approach to IT infrastructure to be more flexible, scalable, predictable and open. By adopting a software-driven approach that enables applications to take advantage of and act on vast amounts of data in real time, moving beyond the constraints of the traditional hardware-based networking environment, leading-edge enterprises can react more quickly to market demands today—and extend their competitive advantage tomorrow.

Vello’s Open Networking Solutions

At the core of the next-generation IT infrastructure is an open, scalable, programmable and automated connectivity fabric. Vello Systems has built a new class of network software products that creates this OpenFlow connectivity fabric. Vello’s solution combines traditional Ethernet and advanced optical technologies to support rich feature sets and application requirements. The VellOS operating environment combines real-time Linux programmability, OpenFlow network control and automation, and open programmable interfaces to allow data-centric applications to return the greatest value.

With Vello, applications and business imperatives can drive network resources – all in real time, without “human middleware” to reconfigure systems. This gives back IT staff their weekends, since the risk in system changes can be mitigated by test-driving changes before any are committed. Resources can now be automatically allocated in milliseconds to address, for example, sudden spikes in resource demand due to a system failure.

The Vello Value Proposition

Vellos open networking solutions, with standard programmatic interfaces, integrate seamlessly into leading IT solutions to deliver policy-driven control points in the network.

These control points enable:

• Distributed system network requiring “more nines” of uptime
• Programmable data center fabric that plugs into multiple orchestration and cloud layers
• A scalable, integrated platform to support real-time analytics applications
• IP provisioning services and connectivity management
• On-demand and automated application network bandwidth management
• Dynamic network access control to large compute and data resources

The emergence of a new software-defined architecture, with an open, automated, programmable network at its core, presents new opportunities to simplify operations for IT teams. Vello Systems’ VellOS operating environment represents a foundational technology in this new class of systems. VellOS configures, orchestrates, and automates the network on behalf of the storage and compute resources connected through its fabric.
VellOS is built on a real-time Linux platform and deployed on standard servers. It is built on a forwarding abstraction layer to extend the OpenFlow control set to forwarding technologies beyond Ethernet, with a variety of optical technologies for the data center supported presently. This forwarding abstraction can, however, be extended to other control frameworks. The core of VellOS supports a variety of critical infrastructure to support deployment of advanced IP services independent of the underlying network.

Open ReST programming interfaces allow rapid development of new applications as well as integration into existing policy and business process management environments to ensure the entire IT environment works together deterministically.

This VellOS soft-infrastructure can then be woven into a modular fabric of systems tailored to the unique requirements of a customer. VellOS was initially developed to adapt OpenFlow to optical networking systems, and so all-optical networks, traditional Ethernet networks, or combinations of both can be constructed and managed under the intelligence of the VellOS platform.

Vello delivers a complete tested “stack” including both VellOS and hardware from members of the Vello ecosystem of vendors. We continue to test and qualify third-party hardware for mission-critical deployments. This model provides both the assurance of a robust solution as well as the flexibility to select the complement of vendors with the right products for a particular requirement.

Please view our Solutions page to see examples of these qualified stacks.

Vello CX networking systems deliver highly economical low-latency, multi-terabit capacity for the most demanding data center network environments. The CX4000 is a compact, modular and highly resilient platform, ideal for environments where rack space is a premium. CX16000 provides unparalleled scalability and bandwidth density in a modular and highly resilient platform. Combined with the single-slot high-density and ultra-low latency five-10G port CX50T network I/O module, the CX platform predictably delivers sub-5 nanosecond latency per port.

The Vello CX platform is specifically tailored for financial trading applications, active/active data centers, business continuity and disaster recovery deployments where each nanosecond of latency counts. Organizations, seeking a simple solution to deliver bandwidth on-demand and continuously available networks for today’s distributed and virtualized application environment across multiple data centers can deploy the Vello CX platform to dramatically reduce their total cost of ownership (TCO).

Vello CX4000 and CX16000

With the 5-port CX50T network I/O module, the CX platform uniquely provides ultra-low latency connectivity for a very large choice of protocols and bit-rates. It interconnects switches over long distances via up to 16G FC inter-switch links, 1/10GbE or even via 40GbE QSFP+ uplinks to accommodate the most recent generation of ultra-fast 40GbE Ethernet switches.

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