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DartPoints Deploys ADVA Ensemble for Pure-Play NFV
February 2016 by Marc Jacob
ADVA Optical Networking announced that DartPoints is deploying the ADVA Ensemble solution to transform its data center services and generate new revenue opportunities. Dallas-based DartPoints, a leading provider of customized data center solutions, is utilizing the pure-play network functions virtualization (NFV) technology for several new business cases. The ADVA Ensemble product suite will be used to support multi-vendor virtual network functions (VNFs) that can be managed either by DartPoints or by the customer. It will also enable multi-tenancy VNFs. The first of these to be rolled out will be virtual firewalls and routers managed by DartPoints.
DartPoints is utilizing several key elements of the ADVA Ensemble product suite. This includes the Ensemble Connector, a virtualization platform that provides virtual switching, flow steering across diverse physical and virtual network systems and Carrier Ethernet 2.0 functionality, all in a hardware-agnostic, software-only instance. The platform runs on the ADVA FSP 150vSE, an Intel-based server wrapped in a carrier-class chassis. Paired with the Ensemble Connector, the ADVA FSP 150vSE provides one platform for both services and network access, hosting multiple combinations of software-based VNFs required for a service chain. The Ensemble Orchestrator has also been installed to instantiate and provision VNFs from multiple vendors.
