Intel Announces New Hardware And Software Tools To Boost Data Center Efficiency
The tools are designed to accelerate the data center and telecom network transformation with new reference architectures.
Three strategic reference architectures that will enable the IT and telecom industries to accelerate hardware and software development for software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) were announced by Intel Corporation at the Open Networking Summit conference held the third week of April, 2013.
These reference architectures, aimed for the telecommunications, cloud data center, and enterprise data center infrastructure market segments, combine open standards for SDN and NFV with industry-leading Intel hardware and software to enable networks to be more agile and intelligent so they can adapt to changing market dynamics. Integrating SDN and NFV on standard x86 platforms allows lowering the acquisition and management costs as well as enabling new innovative services never before possible in networking infrastructure.