Compare the Top Software-Defined Networking Solutions in Canada as of October 2025

What are Software-Defined Networking Solutions in Canada?

Software-defined networking solutions enable organizations to rapidly configure network architecture in order to better handle high volumes of network traffic. Compare and read user reviews of the best Software-Defined Networking solutions in Canada currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Cisco ACI
    Achieve resource elasticity with automation through common policies for data center operations. Extend consistent policy management across multiple on-premises and cloud instances for security, governance, and compliance. Get business continuity, disaster recovery, and highly secure networking with a zero-trust security model. Transform Day 2 operations to a more proactive model and automate troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and remediation. Optimizes performance, and single-click access facilitates automation and centralized management. Extend on-premises ACI networks into remote locations, bare-metal clouds, and colocation providers without hardware. Cisco's Multi-Site Orchestrator offers provisioning and health monitoring, and manages Cisco ACI networking policies, and more. This solution provides automated network connectivity, consistent policy management, and simplified operations for multicloud environments.
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    Cruz Operations Center (CruzOC)
    CruzOC is a scalable multi-vendor network management and IT operations tool for robust yet easy-to-use netops. Key features of CruzOC’s integrated and automated management include performance monitoring, configuration management, and lifecycle management for 1000s of vendors and converging technologies. With CruzOC, administrators have implicit automation to control their data center operations and critical resources, improve network and service quality, accelerate network and service deployments, and lower operating costs. The result is comprehensive and automated problem resolution from a single-pane-of-glass. Cruz Monitoring & Management. NMS, monitoring & analytics -- health, NPM, traffic, log, change. Automation & configuration management -- compliance, security, orchestration, provisioning, patch, update, configuration, access control. Automated deployment -- auto-deploy, ZTP, remote deploy. Deployments available on-premise and from the cloud.
    Starting Price: $1350
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    Cruz Fabric Controller

    Cruz Fabric Controller

    Dorado Software

    Cruz Fabric Controller offers true software-defined networking and control to orchestrate fabrics in your local or remote data center, remote edges, and remote sites. With a single-pane-of-glass, you can deploy and update fabrics, manage, monitor, maintain fabrics, and automate operations.
    Starting Price: $1350
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    Trustgrid

    Trustgrid

    Trustgrid

    Trustgrid is the SD-WAN for application providers. The Trustgrid platform uniquely addresses the needs of SaaS application providers who rely on remote systems. By combining an SD-WAN 2.0, edge computing, and zero trust remote access into a single platform we allow software providers to manage and support distributed application environments from the cloud to the edge. With the Trustgrid platform you can: • Build cloud to on-premise networks at scale • Manage and support 100s of networks from a single pane of glass • Control on-premise apps and appliances as if they were in the cloud • Run and support Docker containers in any cloud or on-premise • Provide your support teams secure access to edge application environments Simplify connectivity, enhance security, and guarantee network availability with Trustgrid.
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    DxOdyssey
    DxOdyssey is lightweight software built on patented technology that enables you to create highly available application-level micro-tunnels across any mix of locations and platforms. And it does so more easily, more securely, and more discreetly than any other solution on the market. Using DxOdyssey puts you on a path to zero trust security and helps networking and security admins secure multi-site & multi-cloud operations. The network perimeter has evolved. And DxOdyssey’s unVPN technology is designed with this in mind. Old VPN and direct link approaches are cumbersome to maintain and open up the entire network to lateral movement. DxOdyssey takes a more secure approach, giving users app-level access rather than network-level access, reducing attack surface. And it does all of this with the most secure and performant approach to create a Software Defined Perimeter (SDP) to grant connectivity to distributed apps and clients running across multiple sites, clouds, and domains.
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    Ericsson NetCloud Service
    Ericsson NetCloud Service is a comprehensive subscription-based solution that delivers cloud management, customer support, lifecycle warranty, training, and purpose-built routers for 5G and LTE wireless networks. It enables businesses to maximize the value of cellular networking with real-time software updates and secure, scalable connectivity for Wireless WAN and private cellular deployments. The platform offers 24/7 global enterprise-level support and warranty coverage during the subscription term. Users benefit from on-demand training and certification programs to keep up with the latest technologies and products. NetCloud Service supports various use cases including branch offices, mobile vehicles, IoT, private networks, and small sites, providing tailored features like SD-WAN, zero trust security, AI virtual assistants, and advanced network analytics. Ericsson continuously updates its endpoints and cloud software to ensure network reliability, security, and performance.
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    Lumen SD-WAN

    Lumen SD-WAN

    Lumen Technologies

    Unleash your network potential with Lumen SD-WAN Solutions featuring automated security, optimized performance and intelligent scalability for driving digital innovation. Lumen SD-WAN solutions help reduce complexity and risks of network transformation by securing and coordinating workloads across the full range of connectivity types on a single, automated platform with centralized visibility and control. Learn how to streamline your network operations with SD-WAN. With its unique cloud gateway architecture and innovative Dynamic Multipath Optimization™ (DMPO) capabilities, Lumen SD-WAN with VMware delivers reliable, secure high-performance access to voice, video and other business-critical applications from branch to data center to cloud at scale. Build branch connectivity in minutes with scalable management components designed to support mid- to large-sized organizations.
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    Infinera Transcend Software Suite
    Transcend Software Suite, accessible, modular, application-based network automation. Transcend the current boundaries of your network's capabilities with Infinera's multi-layer, multi-domain, multi-vendor software suite. The Infinera Transcend Software Suite is a comprehensive software platform, offering network automation solutions that support operational simplification, resource optimization, and fast service delivery, enabling network transformation. Built on cloud-native technologies, Transcend unleashes the power of network automation through applications ranging from network discovery and path computation to closed-loop automation and analytics. Industry-proven open and modular solutions that are easy to deploy. Infinera is a global supplier of innovative networking solutions that enable enterprises, governments, carriers, and cloud operators to scale network bandwidth, accelerate service innovation, and automate network operations.
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    Blue Planet
    The Blue Planet Intelligent Automation Portfolio is a comprehensive, open software suite that empowers service providers with deep insights about the network to optimize business processes that span IT and Network functions, accelerating your digital transformation. IT and Network operations are no longer constrained in legacy, manually intensive silos. Blue Planet powers closed-loop automation through multi-domain, multi-layer orchestration combined with inventory federation, analytics, and route optimization and assurance, unlocking network potential and business agility. Working across multi-vendor domains, including Ciena’s domain controlled by Manage, Control and Plan (MCP), Blue Planet intelligent automation enables the delivery of a range of end-to-end services with fast time to market and exceptional performance, at reduced operational costs.
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    NEC ProgrammableFlow

    NEC ProgrammableFlow

    NEC Corporation of America

    Enabling modern IT environments, NEC's ProgrammableFlow® networking suite achieves greater organizational agility. As a pioneer of the first commercially available Software-Defined Networking (SDN) solution using OpenFlow protocol, our technology enables full network virtualization and allows enterprises, data centers and service providers to easily deploy, control, monitor and manage secure multi-tenant network infrastructure. Today’s network professionals are constantly challenged to perform a variety of tasks, which, in many cases, are routine tasks that are error prone. Manual tasks steal time away from more valuable activities. NEC’s SDN solution, ProgrammableFlow Networking Suite, streamlines security, reduces operational costs, and optimizes the ability to manage and control networks. Enables faster, easier deployment and management of Unified Communications (UC) networks. Delivers simplified provisioning and dynamic, on demand, allocation of critical network resources.
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    Junos Space Network Management
    Junos Space Network Management Platform works with our management applications to simplify and automate management of Juniper’s switching, routing, and security devices. As part of a complete solution, the platform provides broad fault, configuration, accounting, performance, and security management (FCAPS) capability, same day support for new devices and Junos OS releases, a task-specific user interface, and northbound APIs for integration with existing network management systems (NMS) or operations/business support systems (OSS/BSS). The platform helps network operators at enterprises and service providers scale operations, reduce complexity, and enable new applications and services to be brought to market quickly, through multilayered network abstractions, operator-centric automation schemes, and a simple point-and-click UI.
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    NorthStar Controller

    NorthStar Controller

    Juniper Networks

    Network operators need the ability to automate provisioning and managing network service paths for a variety of application- and end user-defined constraints. NorthStar Controller, the industry’s first WAN software-defined networking (SDN) controller for traffic optimization, helps operators achieve this goal. It automates the control of segment routing and IP/MPLS flows in service provider, cloud provider, and large enterprise networks. NorthStar Controller provides you with granular visibility into network traffic flows, while optimizing network capacity through closed-loop automation. It monitors your network in real time, gathering streaming telemetry, IGP, and BGP-LS data from the network and analyzing the data to provision new service paths based on user-defined SLA constraints. With NorthStar Controller, you can run your network hotter, at higher capacity utilization levels, with confidence.
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    GV Orbit

    GV Orbit

    Grass Valley

    GV Orbit is a single, consolidated, overarching configuration, control and monitoring package specifically designed for the dynamic orchestration of broadcast media networks, whether they be SDI, hybrid or pure IP. Its underlying architecture, however, is targeted at open standards-based IP systems with many features and functions specifically crafted to make IP easy. Dynamic Orchestration is GV Orbit’s core strength that differentiates it from competitive systems. The ability to build, configure and change systems on-the-fly, whether it’s adding/removing devices or simply changing a name. Device discovery and detection. Easy device addressing, setup and system configuration. Ergonomic graphical screens include device list and topology views with “drill-down”. Live updating including signal renaming and adding new devices. Fully featured routing control for SDI, hybrid or IP router/switch.
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    AudioCodes Software-Defined Voice Network
    Digital transformation for communications and collaboration solutions. Leveraging the principles of Software-Defined Networking (SDN), AudioCodes Software-Defined Voice Network (SDvN) is an open solution designed to help large enterprises undergoing the digital transformation process to simplify the operations of their voice networks and increase call routing efficiency. It achieves this through consolidation of communications silos, connectivity with SIP trunk services and utilization of the corporate IP network to optimize call routing. Through a combination of AudioCodes' session border controllers (SBCs), global end-to-end call routing and policy management, user management, and voice network management tools, SDvN enables the creation of a universal network that connects on-premises and cloud-based communications solutions without having to replace existing platforms.
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    Verge-OS

    Verge-OS

    Verge.io

    Verge-OS is the first and only operating system that abstracts the functions of networking, compute (hypervisor), and storage from commodity bare metal hardware to create virtual data centers. Where our competitors virtualize machines, we virtualize entire data centers. Everything included. One license. One simple and intuitive pane of glass to manage it all. Verge-OS is a full-featured Software Defined Networking platform complete with a fully integrated firewall. Verge-OS abstracts the entire data center from the underlying hardware and integrates all of these raw resources into the hypervisor. Verge-OS utilizes RAIN architecture in its vSAN to provide storage that is more distributed, shareable, and scalable. erge-OS replaces the software and licenses associated with your hypervisor, SAN, NAS, firewall, disaster recovery, backup, orchestration, system management and logging tools, and eliminates proprietary hardware maintenance contracts.
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    Pica8 PICOS
    The one-of-a-kind PICOS open NOS with tightly coupled control planes gives network operators surgical, non-disruptive control of their enterprise applications, deep and dynamic traffic monitoring, and even attack mitigation, all in real time. There’s no better way to implement zero-trust networking and software-defined perimeters than PICOS. Our flagship open network operating system installs on 1G- to 100G-interface open switches from a broad array of Tier 1 manufacturers. This fully featured license offers the most comprehensive support for enterprise features on the market. It includes the Debian Linux distribution, with an unmodified kernel for maximum DevOps programmability. Enterprise Edition also includes AmpCon, an Ansible-based automation framework that couples Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP) with the Open Network Install Environment (ONIE) to simplify installation and operation of open network switches across the enterprise.
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    InterCloud

    InterCloud

    InterCloud

    As your enterprise applications are more widely distributed, the demand for flexibility, performance, security and control is higher than ever. InterCloud is the only software-defined cloud interconnect provider delivering a secure, end-to-end managed service. Our API-first platform simplifies and accelerates your network operations, offering enhanced performance and visibility. As a privileged partner of the major cloud service providers (CSPs), we provide optimized connectivity solutions tailored to your organization’s needs. To connect your business-critical applications, InterCloud guarantees end-to-end security and performance of your traffic from your premises to your cloud environments using CSPs’ private connectivity services. To optimize the performance of your business applications accessed via the Internet, InterCloud manages Internet exchange peering design and implementation.
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    Versa SASE

    Versa SASE

    Versa Networks

    Versa SASE integrates a comprehensive set of services through VOS™ delivering security, networking, SD-WAN, and analytics. Built to run in the most complex environments, Versa SASE provides the flexibility and elasticity for simple, scalable, and secure deployments. Versa SASE integrates security, networking, SD-WAN, and analytics within a single software operating system delivered via the cloud, on-premises, or as a blended combination of both. Versa SASE delivers secure, scalable, and reliable enterprise-wide networking and security while increasing multi-cloud application performance and dramatically driving down costs. Versa SASE is built as a complete integration of best-of-breed security, advanced networking, industry-leading SD-WAN, genuine multi-tenancy, and sophisticated analytics in a single Enterprise-class carrier-grade operating system (VOS™) that operates at exceptional scale. Learn more about the technology of Secure Access Service Edge.
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    HPE Synergy

    HPE Synergy

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise

    HPE Synergy is a composable, software-defined infrastructure for hybrid cloud environments, enabling you to compose fluid pools of physical and virtual compute, storage, and fabric resources into any configuration for any workload under a unified API, all available as a service through HPE GreenLake. Manage one infrastructure that supports current and next-gen apps, each with vastly diverse infrastructure requirements and service-level objectives. Accelerate application and service delivery through a single interface that precisely composes infrastructure at near-instant speeds. Engineered with software-defined intelligence at its core and powered by HPE OneView, HPE Synergy enables you to stand up services in minutes with a single line of code. Accelerate your business with a developer-friendly infrastructure. The unified API allows you to automate infrastructure operations with an extensive ecosystem of partners.
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    QTS Switchboard

    QTS Switchboard

    QTS Data Centers

    Fully automated software-defined service that connects you to our ecosystem of data centers, public clouds, and QTS IP blended internet service from one port in minutes. Powered by our digitized API-driven Service Delivery Platform, QTS Switchboard enables seamless, self-service provisioning to a multitude of destinations, from a single dedicated port. Our differentiated one port-to-many destination approach enables seamless provisioning of multiple virtual connections for a variety of use cases from one dedicated QTS Switchboard port, in minutes. Rapid interconnection between customers within a QTS data center. Connects two QTS data centers within a metropolitan area. Connect from a QTS data center to local carrier hotels. Connect to other QTS mega data centers in key markets. Seamless connection from a QTS data center to AWS, Azure, Google, and Oracle Cloud.
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    Ciena Manage, Control and Plan (MCP)
    Manage, Control and Plan supercharge your Ciena network with automated operations. Plan and deploy customer services quickly. Assure high network performance easily. Gain operational efficiencies. Ciena’s Manage, Control and Plan (MCP) domain controller delivers these business benefits through software control and automation of lifecycle operations. Moreover, it provides the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) foundation for advanced applications which enable optimization of multi-layer network performance. Ciena’s suite of MCP Applications offers software control, analytics and automation to supercharge multi-layer network operations to exceptional levels of operational efficiency. Ciena’s suite of MCP Applications offers software control, analytics and automation to supercharge your multi-layer network operations to exceptional levels of operational efficiency. Getting the most from your investment in Ciena’s Manage, Control and Plan (MCP) is critical.
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    Cisco SD-Access
    A more secure and agile network for your modern enterprise. Your IT operations can be more efficient, your network more secure, and your user experience more consistent across wired, wireless, and VPN infrastructure with our advanced solution for automating user policy and network access. Cisco SD-Access, a solution within Cisco DNA, defines a uniform policy-based network fabric that meets business needs with security, automation, and assurance. SD-Access augments the Cisco DNA Center capabilities of automation and assurance. It also provides a software-defined approach for network segmentation, critical for establishing a zero-trust network. Use AI- and ML-based advanced analytics for endpoint identification and grouping. Analyze traffic flows between groups, and define effective access policies. Apply group-based access policies for effective multilevel segmentation, leading to zero-trust security.
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    Arista Converged Cloud Fabric
    Converged Cloud Fabric (CCF)™ is an automated fabric built with cloud networking design principles. CCF leverages VPC/VNet constructs on-prem to deliver a cloud Network-as-a-Service operational model. CCF automates networking for multiple private cloud platforms, enabling the network to operate at the speed of VMs and Containers. With built-in analytics and telemetry, CCF provides real-time contextual visibility across the fabric and one-click troubleshooting workflows. With CCF, NetOps, DevOps and CloudOps teams can effectively collaborate, and rapidly on-board applications and tenants. CCF enables mainstream and midsize organizations to leverage network as a strategic pillar of the digital transformation strategy. With CCF's self-service networking and contextual intelligence, NetOps team can focus on innovations such as new services and analytics, instead of time-consuming manual tasks.
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    Contrail Networking

    Contrail Networking

    Juniper Networks

    Contrail Networking provides dynamic end-to-end networking policy and control for any cloud, any workload, and any deployment, from a single user interface. It translates abstract workflows into specific policies, simplifying the orchestration of virtual overlay connectivity across all environments. You can apply and control end-to-end policies across physical and virtual environments. Contrail Networking’s software-defined networking (SDN) capability, based on the open-source network virtualization project Tungsten Fabric, enables you to securely deploy your workloads in any environment. It offers continuous overlay connectivity to any workload, running on any compute technologies from traditional bare-metal servers, virtual machines, to containers. The unified operations and management tool, Contrail Command, is a simple-to-use interface.
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    Cisco SD-Branch
    Agile, on-demand network services for the branch. Transform the customer experience in your branch offices. Consolidate hardware network functions into a single software platform that can deploy business-critical services in minutes. Deploy, monitor, and optimize network services with software and hardware that's purpose-built for branch deployments. Deploy services on demand and manage changes in minutes, not months, with centralized orchestration and management. Use virtualization so you don't need to deploy IT resources and truck rolls to remote locations. Free up IT resources to work on strategic needs. Meet business objectives with enterprise-grade software services and hardware platforms purpose-built for the branch. With SD-Branch, network functions run inside a virtualized environment.
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    Cisco Catalyst Center
    Optimize resources, reduce spending, and enhance your organization's digital agility with a powerful management system that uses AI to connect, secure, and automate network operations. Deploy networks faster with provisioning and configuration automation. Proactively scale your network using deep insights into capacity and performance. Improve time to resolution with AI diagnostics and remediation. Optimize Wi-Fi coverage and deliver services where they're needed with 3D visualization. Gain visibility into the user experience and improve hybrid work experience with application insights.
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    Cisco Evolved Programmable Network (EPN) Manager
    Cisco Evolved Programmable Network Manager (EPNM), simplified, converged, multilayer management. Our EPN Manager is designed for element and network management systems. It provides simplified, converged, end-to-end lifecycle management for carrier-grade networks of all sizes. Businesses can improve agility and operational efficiencies through automated device operations, fast provisioning, and proactive assurance. Reduce time to market of network services, and time from device introduction or features updates to actual network deployment. Deliver frequent, domain-specific content asynchronous from the management platform. Resolve network issues faster, and quickly identify affected circuits and virtual connections through automated provisioning of services. Benefit from a shared information model, consistent workflows and UI, and easier deployment. Get integrated, end-to-end management for the entire carrier network, supporting multiple domains, right out of the box.
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    CoreSite Open Cloud Exchange
    CoreSite’s Open Cloud Exchange is your “easy button” for enterprise-class network connectivity services. Simplifying hybrid cloud and site-to-site interconnection management, the Open Cloud Exchange (OCX) cuts data and broadband costs, assures business continuity, and elevates cloud performance. The Open Cloud Exchange is a software-defined networking platform designed to take the complexity out of hybrid cloud interconnection. Order a port, virtual router, or ethernet virtual connection in minutes. Move data directly between clouds using Open Cloud Exchange virtual routing capabilities. The Open Cloud Exchange is offered at a flat rate, with month-to-month billing that eliminates vendor lock-in. Pricing is determined by the bandwidth (service rate) you designate. With the power to quickly recover mission-critical data through private connections to multiple clouds, you can establish the resilience you need to execute risk-reducing business.
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