1. Solution brief
Break through network
barriers
ECODE Evolve, powered by the HP VAN SDN Controller
Embrace new network
capabilities
Business innovation is challenging network
agility and efficiency like never before. While
application-driven requirements are ramping
up to meet the world’s real-time demands,
legacy networks have been unable to keep
pace with growing demands on the network.
They end up functioning more like bottlenecks
to change. With constraints of network design,
deployment, order, and change management,
legacy networks come with growing CAPEX
and the OPEX costs as the network scales.
Software-defined Networking (SDN) on
the other hand, is disrupting the existing
market landscape and redefining networking
standards. ECODE Evolve, powered by the
HP VAN SDN Controller is a solution enabled by
industry-standard OpenFlow protocol. It defies
the standards set by the legacy networks
and provides powerful software tools for
enterprises to orchestrate network services
dynamically—on demand.
Solve your scaling problems
Evolve, powered by HP VAN SDN Controller
eliminates the need for traditional features
such as network routing and switching. Its
features include:
• Real-time health monitoring of controller
resources, control, and data channel
utilizations, with self-healing capabilities
• Lower CAPEX costs by simplifying design
processes, validating network topology, and
reducing implementation time
• Lower OPEX costs by automating processes
such as service provisioning, change control,
policy validation, and implementation
• Simulation of the network change prior to
implementation to mitigate risk
• Real-time traffic analysis for vulnerability,
threat detection, and mitigation
• Intelligent traffic optimization by statically
determining the Quality of Service (QoS)
The solution creates a simple, flatter, and
centralized flow-based structure. It controls all
aspects of SDN orchestration while adapting to
changes as the network scales up.
A closer look at
orchestrating the network
Evolve is a northbound Application
Programming Interface (API) residing in
the application plane, decoupled from
the VAN SDN controller. It communicates
with the VAN SDN Controller to provide an
interactive interface with the underlying
OpenFlow‑enabled networking infrastructure.
This architecture empowers you with dynamic,
real-time network designs. You can safely
modify and test the designs, and then have
it automatically deployed in a production
environment.
Evolve comes packaged as an external
application to the VAN SDN Controller in the
form of a virtual machine (eVM). The eVM
can be deployed as an appliance or can be
installed on a standard x86 server. Evolve
SDN orchestrator comes prebundled with
five different orchestration applications, to
accomplish specific network tasks.
• Evolve Canvas allows you to sketch a
new design, simulate it in a virtual testing
environment, and then dynamically
implement it directly on the production
network. This dramatically reduces the time
required to go from design to prestaging
and deployment.
• Evolve Control lets you take a snapshot of a
live production network and automatically
creates an accurate simulation of this
network in a virtual environment; allowing
you to test changes virtually, prior to
production deployment.
