Here is the Alcatel-Lucent new software defined networking (SDN) technologies for the OmniSwitch Ethernet LAN portfolio.

Henceforth available, this package is tailored for its Enterprise division. Meaning that, companies can meet the increasing demands of employees and customers to use the applications they want, when and where they want to use them.

Henceforth, Alcatel-Lucent is expanding its Application Fluent Network vision to help enterprises build SDN-based solutions in

an affordable manner.

Connectikpeople.co observes that, OpenFlow support and OpenStack integration are available on the Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch product via a free software upgrade or at no additional charge when a new system is purchased.

OpenFlow-enabled Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitches interoperating with Arubawireless controller can dynamically route traffic for optimal performance improving the user experience with bandwidth intensive, real-time applications on a wireless network.

Connectikpeople.co has also captured :

Enhanced security for application traffic flows: this means when an unwanted application or traffic pattern is detected, an automatic security policy is immediately created and enforced at the OmniSwitch level to stop malicious network traffic. This capability leverages RESTful interfaces and Application Fingerprinting that are enabled by Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitches and Radware DefensePro.

Software Defined Data Center: IP and fiber channel based storage can be managed on the converged data center network through the programmable interfaces available on Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch.

The following capabilities supporting these use cases have also been added to Alcatel-Lucent’s application fluent network portfolio.

• OpenFlow 1.3 support complements previously released RESTful API support on OmniSwitch products, providing an additional northbound SDN interface for interoperability in an open and multi-vendor SDN-controlled environment.
• OpenStack integration provides additional southbound SDN interfaces that enable open and multi-vendor virtualized SDN ecosystems. 
• A new module available for the OmniSwitch 6900 with a Native Fibre Channel interface and built-in Fibre Channel-to-Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Gateway enables convergence of storage and data networking in the data center. This capability has been validated with QLogic Storage Area Network (SAN) fabric and NetApp storage arrays.