Sonus Expands NFV Onboarding Ecosystem with Wind River Titanium Cloud Validation

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 5, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --

Key Takeaways:

• The Sonus SBC SWe completed the testing and validation process of the Wind River Titanium Cloud ecosystem program.
• Sonus and Wind River collaborate to offer service providers a verified solution for SBC VNF, delivering carrier-grade performance, availability, and reliability.
• The Sonus SBC SWe is a cloud native solution that provides security, interworking, and transcoding at scale for real-time communications in the Cloud.

Sonus Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: SONS), a global leader in securing Cloud and real-time communications, announced today that its cloud native Session Border Controller Software edition (SBC SWe) completed the testing and validation process of the Wind River Titanium Cloud ecosystem program. In collaboration with Wind River, Sonus is offering a proven, carrier-grade virtual SBC that is designed to meet service provider requirements for performance, reliability, and availability.

As industry standards continue to evolve, successful cloud communications deployments require collaboration and testing between service orchestration vendors, Virtual Network Function (VNF) vendors, and Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVI) providers.

The Titanium Cloud ecosystem enables the availability of interoperable standard products optimized for NFV deployment with Titanium Cloud to help accelerate time-to-market. By leveraging the innovation of Wind River's Titanium Cloud and Sonus' cloud native SBC, service providers can confidently and reliably deliver carrier-class real-time communications in the Cloud. This partnership expands Sonus' NFVI partner network to enable rapid onboarding in Wind River environments.

The Sonus SBC SWe is the industry's leading software-based, cloud native SBC architected to enable and secure real-time communications. The SBC SWe delivers security, transcoding, and signaling and media interworking with the same reliability as Sonus' hardware-based SBC appliances. Sonus' validation is one more proof point for its cloud native SBC VNF and showcases its commitment to a multi-vendor cloud ecosystem.

Wind River Titanium Cloud is a fully integrated, ultra-reliable, and deployment-ready portfolio of virtualization software products. Titanium Cloud technologies enable organizations such as service providers to deploy virtualized services faster, at lower cost, and with guaranteed uptime.

Quotes:

"Service providers need validated and market-ready end-to-end NFV solutions. To address this need, collaboration across the ecosystem is essential," said Charlie Ashton, senior director, Business Development for Networking Solutions, Wind River. "We are partnering with leaders like Sonus to create optimized, interoperable solutions for service providers who are deploying NFV in their networks."

"As a cloud native market leader, Sonus provides VNFs that work in many environments," said Mykola Konrad, vice president, Product Management and Marketing, Sonus. "This validation is another proof point of Sonus' experience in providing a tested solution for real-time communications that delivers performance, availability and reliability at the scale the most demanding service provider networks expect."

Other Facts:

• The Titanium Cloud portfolio is based on open software standards including Linux, KVM, carrier-grade plugins for OpenStack®, Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK), and accelerated virtual switching, all optimized for Intel architecture platforms.

Additional Resources:

• Learn more about Sonus' Cloud and virtualization solutions.
• Read more about the Sonus SBC SWe.
• Download a free copy of the Miercom report, Sonus SBC SWe Session Border Controller Independent Performance Verification.

About Sonus:

Sonus brings the next generation of Cloud-based SIP and 4G/VoLTE solutions to its customers by securing mission critical traffic for VoIP, video, IM and online collaboration. With Sonus, enterprises can secure and prioritize real-time communications, while service providers can deliver reliable, secure real-time services for mobile, UC and social applications.  Sonus offers an award-winning portfolio of hardware-based and virtualized Session Border Controllers (SBCs), Diameter Signaling Controllers (DSCs), Policy/Routing servers and media/signaling gateways. Visit www.sonus.net or call 1-855-GO-SONUS. Follow Sonus on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and Instagram.

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SOURCE Sonus Networks, Inc.

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