SDxCentral cowboys traveled all the way to Dusseldorf, Germany, this week to cover SDN and NFV at SDN & OpenFlow World Congress. Here’s a final round up:

Colt is leveraging its SDN capabilities to offer real time provisioning of data center interconnects at certain European sites. Its DCNet-as-a-Service lets wholesale customers use a web portal to reserve ports in various data centers and to create instant connections.

The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) completed a multi-vendor wireless transport SDN proof of concept (PoC). ONF member companies Ceragon Networks, Coriant, Ericsson, Huawei, NEC and SM Optics participated in the PoC.

Telco Systems presented a PoC combining model-driven orchestration and virtual test agents (VTAs). The PoC was supported by Orange and combined Cisco's network services orchestrator enabled by Tail-f, Netrounds' virtual test agents and Telco Systems' CloudMetro virtualization device running on Intel's hardware.

Sonus Networks updated its virtualized cloud exchange networking platform with the release of VellOS 8.0. With this update, Sonus offers an SDN solution to help migrate applications to the cloud.

The Korean telecommunications company KT displayed its self-developed Transport SDN that combines networking technology with optical transmission technology, reports Business Korea.

ADVA Optical Networking and BT jointly demonstrated how a backhaul-intensive application - CCTV-based video surveillance - can use NFV at the network’s edge to decentralize processes and improve application performance. The video surveillance application was supplied by ADVA Optical Networking’s partner Alchera Technologies.

Luxoft Holding expanded its NFV Managment And Network Orchestration (MANO) platform, SuperCloud.

Allot Communications announced the Allot Service Gateway-Virtual Edition and its portfolio of pre-integrated services.

Here’s what else SDxCentral covered at SDN & OpenFlow Word Congress:

  • Radisys Integrates FlowEngine With Sanctum’s SDN Controller
  • BTI Integrates NFV Capability Into Its Optical Platform
  • Docomo’s vEPC Is Nearing Launch With Ericsson, Fujitsu, & NEC
  • Telecom Opens Up To Containers
  • What SoftBank’s Service Portal Tells Us About Tail-f & Cisco
  • Carriers Share SDN/NFV Experiences & Gripes
  • Containers Make Ciena’s Blue Planet More User-Friendly
  • SDN & OpenFlow World Congress Gears Up For Düsseldorf