Matisse Announces vMETRO for Virtualization

Service providers and other businesses are running out of space, power and cooling in data centers. According to some accounts, 80 percent enterprises have hit the ceiling for at least one of these already in their data centers. To address the growing data center requirements, Matisse Networks is introducing virtualization of metropolitan optical networks with a suite of new features collectively known as vMETRO.

vMETRO, available today as part of EtherBust software release 2.0, is a collection of capabilities to enable the virtualization of IT resources across distributed data centers and campus networks. It allows for metro-wide data center capacity pooling, improved IT resource utilization and scalable network infrastructure.

It includes vmSwitching, which allows the entire metro to be managed with a single distributed Ethernet switch; optical VLANs, which connect distributed IT resources as if they were within a single data center; and mQOS, which is dynamic bandwidth distribution with metro-wide quality of service enforcement.

“Server and storage virtualization have improved resource utilization and simplified data center management while increasing responsiveness. Circuit WDM systems, however, have been a barrier to extending the benefits of virtualization across the metro optical network,” said Michael Kennedy, president, Network Strategy Partners. “Matisse’s vMETRO enables virtualization of both Ethernet switching and optical transponders so that servers, storage, and bandwidth resources may be efficiently shared across the metro area.”

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