HP Channels Adara's SDN Smarts

BARCELONA -- ADARA Networks, a global software company in the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) space, today announced that ADARA Comet and ADARA Hercules now provides WAN optimization, services choreography and network orchestration through the HP VAN (Virtual Application Networks) Controller and will be sold through the HP SDN App Store. ADARA showcased these solutions in the SDN Pavilion at HP Discover 2014 Barcelona at the Fira Barcelona GranVia in Barcelona, Spain, December 2 to 4, 2014.

The HP SDN App Store provides HP's ecosystem partners a go-to-market platform together with consulting and support services that will enable customers to uncover the business value of SDN.

ADARA Comet maximizes WAN bandwidth by eliminating the slow start/fast drop-off "saw tooth" behavior of legacy TCP. Comet enables multipath L2/L3 end-to-end SDN control. ADARA Comet implements a novel enhanced QS+ using a standard mechanism to provide feedback to TCP/IP. Comet can send TCP traffic at an exponentially higher rate than allowed by traditional congestion control mechanisms. To achieve this goal, Comet utilizes information about the network state, configuration and flow rates and initiates explicit interaction with switches/routers along the network paths.

ADARA Hercules enables complete services/infrastructure choreography and network orchestration. Hercules also provides centralized management, configuration and monitoring using a workflow-based user interface. Workflow execution can be visualized as a flow chart or a graph. Services provisioning management is auto-scalable and the infrastructure configuration automation is OPEX-sensitive.

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