Ocedo, an enterprise networking company represented in South Africa by NetXactics, has announced its entry in the fast growing software defined networking (SDN) market.
Ocedo was started by the founders of Astaro, a network security vendor that over the course of a decade engineered networks for thousands of organisation around the globe, and was acquired by Sophos in 2011.
“Networks engineered using SDN technologies benefit from increased agility, speed, scalability and lower capital and operating costs. And, Ocedo is focused on bringing these SDN benefits to distributed enterprise networks specifically for mid-sized companies,” explains Cornel Swart, CEO of NetXactics.
The solution developed by Ocedo offers a complete, integrated range of cloud managed and SDN-enabled network equipment to connect wired, wireless and wide-area networks. The Ocedo System enables IT departments and MSPs to roll-out entire networks remotely from the cloud, track network activity in a “single pane of glass” and provision network configuration changes in real time.
Additional highlights include:
* The ability to choose between cloud service and local hosting to ensure the SDN solution fits the customers privacy requirements.
* Helping to control BYOD environments by enabling users to self-board their devices and then dynamically apply user-based network access rules independent of location.
* Securely connecting locations such as offices, data centers, stores and home offices with SDN-automated IPSec VPNs and next-generation firewalling.
According to Andrew Lerner, Gartner Group Research Director, “Software-defined networking (SDN) is a radical new approach to designing, building and operating networks that brings a degree of agility similar to what abstraction, virtualisation and orchestration have brought to server infrastructure.”
Enterprise networks are challenged by increasing complexity from mobility, cloud computing, the Internet of Things, by aging network equipment and by increasing privacy concerns. Traditional approaches to network management require large amounts of skills and time as many steps need to be manually fulfilled for each site.
“SDN is ready to move beyond the data center and provide innovation in distributed enterprise networks,” says Jan Hichert, Ocedo CEO. “Ocedo’s focus is on making networking radically simpler for today’s agile, growing organisations.”
