ADVA Optical Networking Joins OPNFV to Help Drive Network Functions Virtualization
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Company's NFV Team to Play Key Role in Developing Open Source Platform
Munich, Germany. April 9, 2015. ADVA Optical Networking announced today that it
has officially joined the Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV). As a member of the
OPNFV, ADVA Optical Networking will play a key role in helping to shape the
community's discussions and focus. Established in September 2014, the OPNFV is
an open source project aimed at accelerating the development and adoption of
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). The OPNFV's community is composed of a
broad range of service providers, hardware manufacturers and software vendors,
including AT&T, IBM and Juniper Networks. Together the community is developing
an integrated open source platform that can be used to build NFV functionality.
"NFV presents the industry with an incredible opportunity; an opportunity to
simplify network infrastructure, an opportunity to rapidly respond to networking
needs. But we're only at the start of this journey," said Christoph Glingener,
CTO, ADVA Optical Networking. "What's key in such an early stage of a
technology's development is that the supporting community moves forward
together. The transition from vendor-specific, monolithic networks to open
architecture requires clear collaboration and communication throughout the
entire ecosystem. It's critical that there are no silos, no fragments. That's
why we're part of the OPNFV. We believe in working together to develop open
source platforms that can help the entire community. With such a collaborative
approach we'll move forward quicker and with greater success."
ADVA Optical Networking's OPNFV membership is the latest in a series of NFV-
focused announcements that showcase the company's commitment to the technology.
In addition to a number of demonstrations that showed how NFV could be used to
develop virtual customer premise equipment solutions and virtualized radio
access backhaul networks, ADVA Optical Networking also recently revealed its
long-term NFV strategy. This strategy is focused on the expansion of its best-
in-breed ADVA FSP 150 Carrier Ethernet portfolio and will include a number of
new Network Interface Devices (NIDs). These new NIDs will become a vital aspect
of the OPNFV's activities as it seeks to fully highlight the benefits of true
NFV-centric networks.
"Communication service providers are eager to benefit from speed of innovation,
cost efficiency and flexibility of NFV based on carrier-grade, integrated, open-
source platforms. Various open source components have emerged from the work of
different standards developing organizations (SDOs) and focusing on the
consistency, performance and interoperability is key to the success of NFV,"
commented Heather Kirksey, director, OPNFV. "We're excited to have ADVA Optical
Networking bring their expertise in building VNF infrastructures (NFVI) and its
commitment to open-source for orchestrating NFV infrastructures, to our
community. We look forward to their contributions in assuring a seamless
integration of NFVI in OPNFV."
"What's critical about the OPNFV is its openness, its deep-rooted sense of
community. It shares our values here. It understands that NFV's true potential
can only be achieved if the industry works collectively," commented Stephan
Rettenberger, VP, marketing, ADVA Optical Networking. "Our membership of the
OPNFV is a clear signal to our customers, to our partners and to the wider
industry that we believe in open collaboration, in transparency. We've displayed
this already with our NFV demos at Mobile World Congress and MPLS SDN World
Congress. The key question is how do we move forward together? We're going to be
working closely with our partners at OPNFV to answer this question and ensure
that NFV continues to advance."
Watch ADVA Optical Networking's latest animation video to understand what NFV
can do for your network: https://youtu.be/_amRLMBNWHE.
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About ADVA Optical Networking
At ADVA Optical Networking we're creating new opportunities for tomorrow's
networks, a new vision for a connected world. Our intelligent telecommunications
hardware, software and services have been deployed by several hundred service
providers and thousands of enterprises. Over the past twenty years, our
innovative connectivity solutions have helped to drive our customers' networks
forward, helped to drive their businesses to new levels of success. We forge
close working relationships with all our customers. As your trusted partner we
ensure that we're always ready to exceed your networking expectations. For more
information on our products and our team, please visit us at:
www.advaoptical.com.
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