Huawei and Fraunhofer SIT Announce the Industry’s First SDN NBI Security Application
New Solution Addresses Security Challenges of the SDN Era
[Düsseldorf, Germany, October 21, 2015] At the 2015 SDN & OpenFlow World Congress, Huawei and Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology (Fraunhofer SIT), Germany’s largest organization for applied scientific research, jointly demonstrated the industry’s first Anti-DDOS security application based on Huawei’s SDN controller SNC NBI, showcasing Huawei’s comprehensive SDN network security defense solution.
SDN/NFV plays a key role in the reconstruction of telecommunication networks and carrier digital transformations, but the openness of SDN networks poses a major challenge to the commercial deployment of SDN/NFV. Huawei and Fraunhofer SIT have worked together to develop a security application based on Huawei’s SDN controller SNC northbound open interface which detects and eliminates DDOS attacks and guarantees SDN network security. The application is based on Huawei’s SDN controller SNC’s first NBI security application, marking a key development for Huawei in terms of opening up SDN controller NBI capabilities.
Huawei and Fraunhofer SIT jointly demonstrated the security solution based on Huawei’s SDN open security network architecture with a full range of SDN network security reinforcements to address mutual trust and encrypted transmission problems between stratified interfaces while building a safe and reliable applications industry chain. The solution checks the legitimacy of applications, prevents the abuse of network resources by applications, isolates applications from SDN network services, and eliminates unknown application risks affecting normal network services. The successful release of this joint solution reinforces Huawei’s role in the development of SDN defense security system architecture and open ecosystem collaboration, paving the way for global SDN/NFV commercial applications.
As Germany’s authoritative professional security research organization, Fraunhofer SIT is one of Huawei’s 150,000 partners worldwide. Huawei is committed to addressing major challenges in the commercialization of SDN/NFV through open collaboration and the establishment of an industrial ecosystem chain to promote the commercial deployment of SDN/NFV worldwide. The SDN security solution and open capabilities for premier integration demonstrate the benefits of Huawei’s active collaboration with its partners. Looking ahead, Huawei will continue to work with over 30 world-leading labs through its SDN/NFV open lab, sharing resources and building mature multi-vendor vertically integrated authentication capabilities, thereby providing a support platform for the establishment of an open ecosystem.
In his keynote speech for this year’s SDN & OpenFlow World Congress, Libin Dai, Vice President of Huawei Carrier BG Marketing, shared Huawei’s latest insights for the future of network SDN/NFV. Huawei experts also held meetings and discussions with industry specialists, analysts and clients on how to overcome the challenges to SDN/NFV development. Huawei’s booth also showed visitors the programmable SDN algorithm engine Flow Engine which supports multiple platforms, as well as the NFV premiere integration service platform.
