Lumina Networks Resources

SD-Core Solution Brief

SD-Core changes the way you control your network, create services, and deliver new business models.

• Reduced time and effort to integrate a new equipment vendor into your
  IP/MPLS network increases commercial tension and lowers CAPEX
• Reduced software footprint to have a single controller for both optical
  and packet domains
• Reduced time to provision a new customer
• Reduced time to define and launch a new service
• Increased efficiency in bandwidth utilization across the domains
• Ability to define and support more types of services to be more competitive and innovative

Lumina SDN Controller Data Sheet

The Lumina SDN Controller, powered by OpenDaylight™, helps Service Providers and enterprises take control of their network in support of their digital transformation.

Discover how the centrepiece of Lumina’s SDN product line – SDN Controller – is built, about Lumina SDN applications, editions, features supported and the results you should expect.

Lumina Network Resource Manager (NRM) Data Sheet

Lumina Networks’ Network Resource Manager (NRM) is a centralized network control application built for the industry’s leading, and most widely deployed Open Source SDN controller, OpenDaylight. Enabling simplified and sophisticated traffic engineering, NRM uses advanced algorithms to dynamically optimize network traffic, as part of the Lumina SD-Core solution.

SD-Core White Paper

Multi-Layer, Multi-Domain Network Control for Agile Service Providers

SD-Core unifies network controls from the access, to the edge, to the datacenter, and through the core.

By merging all legacy and programmable resources, SD-Core removes network silos to improve efficiencies and streamline security while enabling programmability and automation.

• Reduced time and effort to integrate a new equipment vendor into your IP/MPLS network increases commercial tension and lowers CAPEX
• Reduced software footprint to have a single controller for both optical and packet domains
• Reduced time to provision a new customer
• Reduced time to define and launch a new service
• Increased efficiency in bandwidth utilization across the domains Ability to define and support more types of services to be more competitive and innovative.

Orchestration White Paper

The Open Network Automation Platform – How Lumina Networks’ SDN Controller Helps Deliver Network Intent

The Linux Foundation’s Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) is the networking industry’s most broadly supported service orchestration initiative. With deep expertise in OpenDaylight, upon which ONAP is being built, Lumina Networks is ideally suited to provide an open source network control tool-set in a way that supports the capabilities and flexibility that service providers want and need.

Network Management White Paper

Lumina Networks’ Service Abstraction Simplifies Network Management

With Lumina’s software-defined networking tools and service abstraction methodology, service providers can allow business logic – rather than vendors’ proprietary hardware and software – to define their network technology. The time it takes to make changes in the network or turn up new services is reduced from months to days (or less). Plus the reliability of change increases and flexibility enables typically disparate domains to be automated.

Digital Transformation for 5G in the Real World ebook

Exploring five overlooked factors that can make or break 5G rollouts, including:

• Level Set – 5G Opportunities
• 5G Changes Everything
• Envisioning the Open, Converged 5G Architecture
• 5G Factor 1 – Physical Legacy Matters
• 5G Factor 2 – Unified Orchestration Matters
• 5G Factor 3 – Intent Matters
• 5G Factor 4 – Open Source Matters
• 5G Factor 5 – Culture and Talent Matters
• Partnering to Succeed in 5G

Open for Business ezine

Insights from OpenDaylight production successes, October 2019:

• Open Standards and Open Source: Feeding the Virtuous Circle
• Open Source 101: Why bother?
• Starting off right – how to RFP an Open Source Project
• OpenDaylight Nuts and Bolts: Common mistakes around ODL/LSC Systems
• Open Source SDN Control: To DIY or not to DIY

Network Enlightenment ezine

Insights for Service Providers transforming through Open Source:

• Unifying Orchestration of 5G Networks and Services
• SD-WAN and SD-Core: Understanding the Differences
• Service Automation for Heterogeneous Networks
• ONAP for 5G: SDN-R & Wireless Transport SDN
• Open Source SDN Control: To DIY or not to DIY
• NetDevOps: Fueling 5G Innovation

The 5 Factors of 5G Infographic

The climb to automation is complex. The 5G network evolution mandates change.

• High expectations for digital transformation
• Massive numbers of endpoints
• Tighter dependencies between applications/services and infrastructure
• Lack of standardized data models
• Need to support multiple domains and clouds
• Fundamental requirement for multi-vendor support

No software-driven control? No 5g.

Leaping Toward 5G Infographic

Lumina Extension and Adaptation Platform, LEAP, enables 5G service automation in heterogeneous networks. Find out more about:

• Deploying 5G in the Real World
• Model-driven software platform enables extensible automation of
• legacy network elements
• Benefits of Ubiquitous Automation
• Provision devices with legacy interfaces to co-existing with programmable network elements
• LEAP collects Service Assurance parameters,
  normalizes them, and pushes them the stack for
  alarming, statistics, notifications etc
• The Catalyst – Lumina Networks

Lumina Extension & Adaptation Platform (LEAP)  is a modern software framework from Lumina that enables automation of legacy network elements using model-driven frameworks, in an extensible fashion. LEAP extends Lumina’s OpenDayLight based SDN controller using a microservices architecture and enables better integration with business layers. LEAP also promotes the addition of new microservices based components in a language-agnostic manner, thereby enabling operators to use the Python skills of their DevOps teams to extend their service automation frameworks in-house, based on business demands, without dependency on external vendors.

Find out more. Read the Infographic.

Lumina Networks CEO Andrew Coward discusses 5G networking and what to expect in 2020.

Find out more. Discover Digital Transformation for 5G in the Real World eBook