AT&T, IBM Research, And ACS Introduce Cloud-to-Cloud Networking
Funded by DARPA's CORONET program, the new prototype drastically reduces time to set up a cloud-to-cloud high-speed network through a service provider from days into seconds.
Scientists from AT&T, IBM, and Applied Communication Sciences (ACS) announced a proof-of-concept technology that reduces set up times for cloud-to-cloud connectivity from days to seconds. This advance is a major step forward that could one day lead to sub-second provisioning time with IP and next generation optical networking equipment and enables elastic bandwidth between clouds at high connection request rates using intelligent cloud data center orchestrators, instead of requiring static provisioning for peak demand.
The prototype was built with contributions and expertise from AT&T, IBM and ACS, and the work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Government's DARPA CORONET program, which focuses on rapid reconfiguration of terabit networks.