1. Solution brief
Break through network
barriers
ECODE Evolve, powered by the HP VAN SDN Controller
Embrace new network
capabilities
Business innovation is challenging network
agility and efficiency like never before. While
application-driven requirements are ramping
up to meet the world’s real-time demands,
legacy networks have been unable to keep
pace with growing demands on the network.
They end up functioning more like bottlenecks
to change. With constraints of network design,
deployment, order, and change management,
legacy networks come with growing CAPEX
and the OPEX costs as the network scales.
Software-defined Networking (SDN) on
the other hand, is disrupting the existing
market landscape and redefining networking
standards. ECODE Evolve, powered by the
HP VAN SDN Controller is a solution enabled by
industry-standard OpenFlow protocol. It defies
the standards set by the legacy networks
and provides powerful software tools for
enterprises to orchestrate network services
dynamically—on demand.
Solve your scaling problems
Evolve, powered by HP VAN SDN Controller
eliminates the need for traditional features
such as network routing and switching. Its
features include:
• Real-time health monitoring of controller
resources, control, and data channel
utilizations, with self-healing capabilities
• Lower CAPEX costs by simplifying design
processes, validating network topology, and
reducing implementation time
• Lower OPEX costs by automating processes
such as service provisioning, change control,
policy validation, and implementation
• Simulation of the network change prior to
implementation to mitigate risk
• Real-time traffic analysis for vulnerability,
threat detection, and mitigation
• Intelligent traffic optimization by statically
determining the Quality of Service (QoS)
The solution creates a simple, flatter, and
centralized flow-based structure. It controls all
aspects of SDN orchestration while adapting to
changes as the network scales up.
A closer look at
orchestrating the network
Evolve is a northbound Application
Programming Interface (API) residing in
the application plane, decoupled from
the VAN SDN controller. It communicates
with the VAN SDN Controller to provide an
interactive interface with the underlying
OpenFlow‑enabled networking infrastructure.
This architecture empowers you with dynamic,
real-time network designs. You can safely
modify and test the designs, and then have
it automatically deployed in a production
environment.
Evolve comes packaged as an external
application to the VAN SDN Controller in the
form of a virtual machine (eVM). The eVM
can be deployed as an appliance or can be
installed on a standard x86 server. Evolve
SDN orchestrator comes prebundled with
five different orchestration applications, to
accomplish specific network tasks.
• Evolve Canvas allows you to sketch a
new design, simulate it in a virtual testing
environment, and then dynamically
implement it directly on the production
network. This dramatically reduces the time
required to go from design to prestaging
and deployment.
• Evolve Control lets you take a snapshot of a
live production network and automatically
creates an accurate simulation of this
network in a virtual environment; allowing
you to test changes virtually, prior to
production deployment.

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Figure 1. Evolve, powered by the HP VAN SDN Controller
Solution brief | ECODE Evolve, powered by the HP VAN
SDN Controller
“The HP SDN development
platform is secure,
standardized and robust. This
enabled ECODE to develop and
standardize the northbound
SDN applications. Together we
have built a reliable platform
which our customers can trust,
when it comes to their
production network
environment.”
– Nimit Shishodia, Founder/CEO—
ECODE NETWORKS
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• Evolve Netlyzer allows you to dynamically
perform protocol analysis, content searching,
and content matching. It monitors network
traffic and analyzes it against an attack
signature. Upon threat detection, Netlyzer
auto-creates a firewall policy, performs a
compliancy check and implements it to block
the attack, with no human intervention.
• Evolve Flow Rector allows flexible
definition of traffic optimization policies,
thus greatly enhancing resource efficiency
and user experience.
SDN—setting a new standard
SDN represents a new architecture. It gives you
complete programmatic control of a dynamic,
abstracted view of the network and its key
attributes include:
• A separation of data and control planes
• A uniform vendor-agnostic interface called
OpenFlow between control and data planes
• A logical and centralized control plane
• A virtualized underlying network
ECODE and HP—a winning
partnership
ECODE and HP have teamed together to
standardize and build the three-tier SDN
architecture as defined by Open Networking
Foundation (ONF).The value lies in building
a platform together, one that you can trust
to solve the issues traditional networks
have faced.
HP Open SDN architecture
The HP SDN architecture spans the
infrastructure, control, and application
software layers, making the network easier to
manage with maximum agility.
The HP Virtual Application Network (VAN)
SDN Controller platform, paired with
network infrastructure supporting the
industry‑standard OpenFlow protocol,
provides centralized control of a
programmable, end-to-end network designed
to dynamically adjust to your evolving
business needs. The platform’s reliability,
consistent APIs, and rich features, empower
applications, like Evolve, to deliver greater
network efficiency, more advanced security,
QoS management, and rapid service delivery.
Learn more at
hp.com/sdn
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