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Germany,United States : HP and Partners Accelerate Carriers Transition to Network Functions Virtualization [TendersInfo (India)](TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Today at SDN & OpenFlow World Congress, HP announced that leading telecommunications organizations have joined the HP OpenNFV Program as technology partners to help carriers take advantage of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) technology. NFV is part of an overall industry shift towards network and application virtualization. The shift to NFV is expected to transform carriers networking environments, allowing them to deliver new services to their customers more quickly while significantly reducing both operating and capital expenditures. The HP OpenNFV Program technology partners include 6Wind, Brocade, GENBAND, Intel, the Israel Mobile & Media Association, Mellanox Technologies, Spirent, SK Telecom, and Wind River. The HP OpenNFV Program is designed to help the telecommunications industry accelerate innovation and launch services faster, more easily and more cost-effectively. With more than 20 global NFV proof-of-concept projects in motion, we are well positioned to understand and help guide carriers on their journey to cloud-based delivery models, said Werner Schaefer, vice president, Network Functions Virtualization, HP. Our open architectural approach, in collaboration with Intel and our OpenNFV technology partners, is designed to ensure that carriers have a flexible, multivendor platform from which to quickly test and then launch new and innovative services. Through the HP OpenNFV Program and OpenNFV Labs, HP provides a robust ecosystem of NFV technology applications and services partners with a broad choice of application-specific environments, as well as a catalog of completed proofs of concept, to quickly develop applications for cloud-enabled NFV deployments. Examples include infrastructure as a service, virtual network platform as a service and core network virtualization. Intel and HP share a common vision and commitment to enable a rich ecosystem of SDN/NFV solutions based on open source and open standards, said Rose Schooler, vice president, Data Center Group, general manager, Communications Storage and Infrastructure Group, Intel Corporation. HP s Linux implementation and HP Helion OpenStack are prime examples of innovation optimized on Intel s Open Network Platform Server Reference Design. We are continuing our collaboration on this effort by joining HP s OpenNFV Program and Labs as a technology partner. The OpenNFV Program provides an open standards based NFV reference architecture along with HP s industry-standard products and capabilities. This offers telecommunications carriers a ready-to-deploy architecture that can enable the transformation from legacy networks to an NFV- and software defined network (SDN)-enabled infrastructure. (c) 2014 Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by SyndiGate Media Inc. (Syndigate.info). |