OREANDA-NEWS. NEC Corporation of America (NEC) and a pioneer in OpenFlow-based Software Defined Networking (SDN), announced the SDN Application Center, which includes SDN solutions built upon customers' top-of-mind SDN network concerns.

Working with several leading vendors, NEC will offer northbound APIs to help organizations proactively and automatically manage, secure and optimize their networks through their SDN solutions.

"Our new SDN Application Center will give our customers more choice on network visibility, security, load balancing and wide area networks (WAN) optimization," said Don Clark, director of Business Development, IT Platform Technologies, NEC Corporation of America. "Coupled with our previously announced comprehensive multi-vendor infrastructure support, NEC's solutions offer both northbound and southbound APIs to cover the SDN architecture."

Leading vendors that are part of NEC's SDN Application Center include Real Status (Management Applications); vArmour (Security Applications); A10 Networks and Silver Peak (Optimization Applications); and Red Hat (Cloud Orchestration Applications).

First launched in 2011, the ProgrammableFlow network suite was the first commercially available SDN solution to leverage the OpenFlow protocol enabling complete network virtualization, allowing customers to easily deploy, control, monitor, and manage multi-tenant network infrastructure. Endorsed by customers, ProgrammableFlow provides the first comprehensive suite that includes both physical and virtual switches as well as an SDN controller and applications. Ideally suited for corporate and service provider data centers, the ProgrammableFlow Controller provides a cost-effective, high-performance, highly scalable SDN platform.