Accedian Networks launches Skylight performance assurance system
June 18, 2013
MONTREAL -- Accedian Networks, the leader in Performance Assured Networking for Mobile Backhaul, Business Services and Cloud Connectivity, today announced SkyLIGHT, its Solutions Architecture for Performance Assurance. While operators are experiencing congested networks, their wireless backhaul links often show very poorly optimized performance. In this context, SkyLIGHT provides mobile operators with the visibility they need to optimize backhaul performance in real-time. This is done by instrumenting their infrastructure with versatile, standards-based solutions that span across heterogeneous multivendor networks. These solutions include software agents, miniaturized network devices, performance-aware network elements, as well as, overarching cloud-based Apps. All of the elements that mobile operators and service providers need to assure and optimize the performance of their networks in real-time. SkyLIGHT delivers operators with the performance visibility required to take the self-optimization promise of SDN and SON and execute it on multivendor, heterogeneous, mobile backhaul networks (MBH-SON) using standards-based technology – a first in the industry. As Accedian currently has partnerships in place with most major base-station vendors, this makes SkyLIGHT, not only standards-based, but also fully interoperable by-design, with more than 80% of the base-stations on the market.SkyLIGHT delivers operators with the performance visibility required to take the self-optimization promise of SDN and SON and execute it on multivendor, heterogeneous, mobile backhaul networks (MBH-SON) using standards-based technology – a first in the industry. As Accedian currently has partnerships in place with most major base-station vendors, this makes SkyLIGHT, not only standards-based, but also fully interoperable by-design, with more than 80% of the base-stations on the market. SkyLIGHT is comprised of 3 main components: Performance Assurance Elements, Performance Assurance Nodes, and a Performance Assurance Software Platform. These elements work in conjunction with a powerful cloud-based App, which provides SDN and SON (Self-Organizing/Optimizing Networks) Controllers with Network State+ information; the insight required to dynamically optimize usage of backhaul bandwidth in real-time.
Performance Assurance Elements
- SkyLIGHT instruments the network with Performance Assurance Elements. These are software agents that can also take the form of miniaturized network devices or performance-assured network elements.
Performance Assurance Nodes
- Actuators that mediate and aggregate performance assurance sessions from the Performance Assurance Elements with ultra-high accuracy, granularity and with the ability to scale in a virtualized manner.
Performance Assurance Software Platform
- The overhanging performance assurance reporting platform includes a cloud-based portal and a cloud-based App which provides an API towards SDN and SON controllers. “SkyLIGHT promises to provide the multi-vendor, standards-based, performance visibility that network optimization needs to expand SDN beyond data centers use cases and into telco use cases such as Mobile Backhaul – this is a first in the industry.” said Matthew Palmer, Partner at SDNCentral, the #1 resource and independent community for software-defined networking, network virtualization, and network functions virtualization. “With SkyLIGHT, Accedian is opening the path to deliver performance Assurance to MBH-SON and other telco SDN use cases.”“While user demand for data bandwidth is growing exponentially, spectrum is a finite resource and wireless backhaul remains a bottleneck. This creates an acute need for dynamic optimization, and Performance Assured SDN is the perfect technology to address these issues,” said Patrick Ostiguy, President and CEO of Accedian Networks. “We believe that by assuring and optimizing the performance of backhaul networks, both mobile operators and service providers can bring to their customers, the reliability they need and the ever faster data bandwidth they crave – this is why we created SkyLIGHT.” Accedian Networks Inc.
You May Also Like
