When it comes to SDN; enterprises are very clear about what they need: reduced network management costs, increased network security and an improved end-user experience. There are little to no solutions available on the market that improve all these areas. When it comes to the security part, most organizations utilize an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) or Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) to defend their network from attacks. However, an IPS can introduce latency and bottlenecks, and most IDS can only warn if a threat has been found; they cannot act to block the offending traffic. By the time the operator reacts to the warning, the damage may have escalated. Most IPS solutions are only capable of blocking suspicious traffic as it passes through the IPS device. Since this tends to be near the gateway to the Internet, only external threats can be detected and blocked (this is the traditional “secure border” model)
Allied Telesis Secure Enterprise Software Defined Networking (SES) is a state-of-the-art network management and security solution. SES is the only commercially available SDN solution that improves all these areas: it reduces network management costs by removing duplication of effort; it increases network security by automating responses to security threats; and it improves end-user experience because people no longer have to wait for network changes to be made manually. SES comprises an intelligent, fully-featured SDN controller. It reads data from business applications and automatically changes the network configuration to match, and secondly, it works with security applications to instantly respond to alerts and block the movement of threats anywhere within your wired or wireless network
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