carrier-grade – Lanner

Fulfilling NFV goals with Blue Planet SDN/NFV, Lanner’s HTCA NFVi platforms

James Piedra — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 23:13:17 +0000

The Network functions virtualization (NFV) movement came about as a way for communication service providers (CSPs) to overcome issues with vendor lock-in, new service deployment agility, flexibility and management and organization (MANO) issues. With major collaborative open source projects and the largest telecoms on the forefront of NFV development, major strides have been made to ...

Getting Acquainted with Lanner’s HybridTCA Platform for Cloud Computing

Lanner Blog — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 04:56:47 +0000

For years Lanner has been solving customers’ problems and fulfilling requests by adopting the latest technologies such as Crypto acceleration and DPI, with the aim of integrating more innovative features into our industry-leading hardware appliances; and doing so has in turn facilitated the development of a mutually beneficial synergy between Lanner and the internet security industry heavyweights.

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Cloud Computing in the Network Data Center

Lanner Blog — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 04:54:06 +0000

HCP-72i1

HCP-72i1 HybridTCA™ Communication Platform with 2 x86 CPU Blades and 3 I/O Blades

FX-3710

3U Cloud Storage Appliance with Dual Intel® Xeon® Processors E5-2600 Series

Meeting the Demands of SDN and NFV by Leveraging Intel® Open Network Platform

Lanner Blog — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 04:07:34 +0000

Intel® ONP (Open Network Platform) is a reference architecture to encourage the wide adoptions of SDN (Software Defined Network) and NFV (Network Function Virtualization). This move by Intel clearly points out that the network industry is walking through a transition from hardware-based to a more software-focused ecosystem. With the rapid development of open-source and open-standard software...

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Accelerate High Volume Video Delivery with hardware-based HEVC Technology

Lanner Blog — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 03:47:54 +0000

NCS2-VT02A

4K Video Transport NIC Module Powered By Intel Xeon E3-1515 v5 CPU

FW-8896

High-performance x86 Network Security Appliance based on Dual Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 CPUs

FW-8894

1U High Performance x86 Network Appliance for Enterprise Firewall, UTM and IPS.

NCA-5510

1U High Performance x86 Network Appliance for Enterprise Firewall, UTM and IPS.

Optimized NFVI-ready Network Platform for Carrier-grade Virtual Network Security

Lanner Blog — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 03:13:01 +0000

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is a new network architecture concept that uses IT virtualization technologies to decouple network functions, such as router, firewall, network address transition (NAT), and domain name service (DNS), from proprietary hardware appliances so that they can run as software on general purpose network platform. NFV aims to help telecom service providers obtain...

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Enabling On-demand SD Security Services for Branches and SMEs

Lanner Blog — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 03:07:44 +0000

As pointed out by Gartner report in 2016, more than 30% of advanced cyber threats, such as DDoS, data breach, and ransomware, will aim at the most vulnerable edge networks of SME or remote business branches, where IT managements are more concerned with budget, service flexibility and manageability. To build up sustainable measures against latest emerging cyber threats, they need a flexible...

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Cost-effective Enterprise vCPE Platforms

James Piedra — Sat, 04 Mar 2017 00:02:00 +0000

Great technological advancements from the telecom industry are finally primed and ready to move into the enterprise sector. The massive network functions virtualization project is improving everyday bringing carrier-class networking on commodity x86 hardware. Up until the coming of SDN/NFV, Communication Service Provider have had to rely on specialized and often proprietary hardware installed at the ...

Enterprise/Carrier Grade VoIP: Session Border Controllers Running on Lanner’s Edge Computing Hardware

James Piedra — Tue, 17 Jan 2017 17:00:00 +0000

Background Insecure systems are breached by hackers at an increasingly alarming rate, and VoIP infrastructure is no exception. Companies everywhere are looking protect their communications, and currently the best possible security solution for session-based communications(mostly SIP) is to utilize a SBC (Session Border Controller). Requirements Reliability Enterprise/Carriers require low-latency communications that are reliable, redundant and ...