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Aiming to virtualize all aspects of infrastructure of DPC, the VMware company announced in the summer of 2012 acquisition of Nicira, producer of software-defined networks (Software-Developed Network, SDN). The transaction which amount will be 1.26 billion dollars should come to the end by the end of the current year.
The basic technology of Nicira Open vSwitch will be integrated into family of virtual network programs of VMware. The software of Nicira creates the additional abstraction layer between servers and network devices, allowing the organizations to untie network topology from the equipment and to create virtual network pools. A broad set of net boards, switches, specialized devices, network API and structures is supported. After entry of Nicira company into the structure of VMware her employees will still be engaged in implementation of network projects with the open code. Part of them is busy with development of the OpenFlow SDN protocol, other part takes part in creation of the software of OpenStack Quantum.
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