Start-Up Jeda Networks Out of Stealth With SDN Solution

Jeda Networks, Inc. announced the Fabric Network Controller (FNC), a software-only solution that creates high-performance storage networks over a high-speed Ethernet fabric.

The FNC eliminates the complexity, specialized management resources and high cost required by current offerings composed of proprietary network hardware and software.

The FNC software resides in the network as a VM which decouples and extracts the storage networking control plane from the physical hardware. This ‘storage network overlay’ transforms the Ethernet fabric into a highly scalable storage networking fabric. Managing the fabric is simpler and less resource intensive, adding agility to the Ethernet fabric and reducing TCO costs for organizations.

The FNC supports FCoE enabled devices, delivering on the initial promise of this standard protocol with a high performance, scalable and lower cost alternative to FC and iSCSI solutions. The FNC has been integrated with a number of multi-vendor 10Gb and 40Gb data center Ethernet switches and because the FNC is software, it is network and access speed agnostic, so as speeds migrate to 100Gbs and beyond, the FNC will continue to work within these leaps of performance.

Key FNC technology features include:

Simple installation as a virtual appliance for VMware ESX. As a virtual appliance, the FNC may be installed in any virtualized server that has access to the network.
A pure software solution that works with any standard Jeda qualified data center Ethernet switch and any FCoE supported server and storage array.
Flexibility for network administrators to dynamically define a storage network overlay in software. The FNC has completely separated the network control plane from the data plane.

"The FN. enables a new generation of converged storage networks that can be created and removed dynamically, as needed. This virtualizes the way applications connect with storage, bringing with it new levels of agility and scalability to the data center," said Stuart Berman, founder and CEO, Jeda. "By finally virtualizing the storage network, Jeda’s FNC transforms how storage is networked in the cloud era."

Jeda Networks will be at Interop 2013 in Las Vegas, NE, on May 6-10 and at Storage Expo in Tokyo, Japan on May 8-10 to demonstrate their FNC solution.

Jeda will be shipping their FNC solution in an Early Ship Program (ESP) beginning in May 2013 with availability in the summer.

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