But just delivering technology is not enough.
“We started Lumina Networks to ensure providers can use open source in critical use cases.
“Our job is to be the catalyst to help service providers bring open software networking out of the lab and into their live network,” said Andrew Coward, chief executive officer, Lumina Networks. The company’s methodologies enable customer teams to become self-sufficient in developing and managing their new open source platforms.
Lumina NetDev Services builds solutions using Lumina, open source tools or competitive products. The NetDev Services team at Lumina works with customers to jointly develop production systems using agile methods to prototype and speed through proof-of-concept and pilot phases. Lumina also offers NetDev Services to help organisations transform their network engineering and operations team.
To ensure 100 percent compatibility with OpenDaylight’s code base, Lumina contributes enhancements made to its SDN Controller back to the open source community. Using OpenDaylight as its preferred open source controller, Lumina enables service providers to directly control their SDN implementations while providing the flexibility to develop their own solutions through their choice of vendors thus eliminating lock-in. This is where open source-based networking technology can help. Yet, the complexity of the transition from hardware to software, along with the crucial requirement of independence from vendors, has made it difficult for service providers to move beyond lab trials and into production environments. Transitioning to software-based networks can dramatically lower capital and operational costs while transforming network functionality and customer experience.
Offering the Lumina SDN Controller, applications and Network Development (NetDev) Services, Lumina is the catalyst that brings open software networking out of the lab and into production networks. Along with a leading SDN Controller solution, powered by OpenDaylight™, Lumina brings a talented team of network software engineers and existing customer engagements with some of the world’s largest service providers. launched today in the software-defined networking (SDN) market, through its acquisition of assets associated with the SDN Controller product family from Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. Company Created to be the Catalyst for Open Software Networks to Eliminate Vendor Lock-in