Radware joins HP, Intel, Microsoft, NEC – companies will develop information models for stable, open northbound interfaces that support rapid adoption of SDN.
Radware® (NASDAQ: RDWR), a leading provider of application delivery and application security solutions for virtual and cloud data centers, today announced it is now part of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) Northbound Interface (NBI) Working Group, joining the ranks of companies such as Intel and Microsoft in order to assist the industry accelerate the adoption of open SDN.
Chartered this month, the NBI Working Group was created to help reduce end-user confusion on the Northbound Interface and to help the application developers actively seeking an open Application Programming Interface (API) to develop code against. It will enable acceleration of SDN innovation by allowing significant application portability across SDN controllers, both open source and proprietary.
The ONF is a growing nonprofit organization whose mission is to accelerate the adoption of open
SDN. Launched in 2011 by Deutsche Telekom, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Verizon, and Yahoo!, it promotes open SDN and OpenFlow technologies and standards while fostering a vibrant market of products, services, applications, customers, and users.
“We are elated to find ourselves in the same company of those who are part of the core team,” says Avi Chesla, chief technology officer, Radware. “This working group will help define various SDN Controller Northbound API Interfaces (NBIs) in order to significantly increase the speed in which new SDN applications are developed. Collectively, we will be able to accelerate innovation in order to quickly adapt the customer’s needs from their networks.”
“The number of approaches to the Northbound Interface has grown to more than 20 in the last two years,” says Dan Pitt, executive director of the Open Networking Foundation. “While valuable market education can be taken from each of these approaches, the volume has created a confusion of programmatic interfaces that network service vendors, orchestration systems, and application developers must write to in order to serve diverse SDN use cases. As part of our role in helping the industry develop and maintain approaches to open SDN, we are taking the lead in helping end users better understand what NBIs serve what needs. We appreciate the active participation of our member companies in this work.”
A Chairperson for the NBI Working Group will be appointed by the Board in November, after applications are received from Member Company candidates. Initial information modeling will be completed in 2014. For more information, please visit:
https://www.opennetworking.org/working-groups/working-groups-overview.
About Radware
Radware (NASDAQ: RDWR), is a global leader of application delivery and application security solutions for virtual and cloud data centers. Its award-winning solutions portfolio delivers full resilience for business-critical applications, maximum IT efficiency, and complete business agility. Radware's solutions empower more than 10,000 enterprise and carrier customers worldwide to adapt to market challenges quickly, maintain business continuity and achieve maximum productivity while keeping costs down. For more information, please visit www.radware.com.
Radware encourages you to join our community and follow us on; LinkedIn, Radware Blog, Twitter, YouTube and the Radware Connect app for iPhone®.
This press release may contain statements concerning Radware's future prospects that are "forward-looking statements" under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Statements preceded by, followed by, or that otherwise include the words "believes", "expects", "anticipates", "intends", "estimates", "plans", and similar expressions or future or conditional verbs such as "will", "should", "would", "may" and "could" are generally forward-looking in nature and not historical facts. These statements are based on current expectations and projections that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. There can be no assurance that future results will be achieved, and actual results could differ materially from forecasts and estimates. These risks and uncertainties, as well as others, are discussed in greater detail in Radware's Annual Report on Form 20-F and Radware's other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date on which they are made and Radware undertakes no commitment to revise or update any forward-looking statement in order to reflect events or circumstances after the date any such statement is made. Radware's public filings are available from the Securities and Exchange Commission's website at www.sec.gov or may be obtained on Radware's website at www.radware.com.