Industry partners commit to NFV interoperability testing initiative
(Thomson Reuters ONE) -
· To further enhance Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)
industrialization and support the Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV) project, Cisco,
Ericsson, Huawei and Nokia signed Memorandum of Understanding to create the NFV
Interoperability Testing Initiative (NFV-ITI).
* The main objective of NFV-ITI is to promote competition and create industry
alignment on generic principles for NFV interoperability testing and support
for specific customer situations.
· NFV-ITI will address NFV multi-vendor interoperability challenges
for communication service providers, enabling them to optimize NFV deployment
and integration costs, and reduce time-to-market for new services.
California, US, Stockholm, Sweden, Shenzhen, China, Espoo, Finland, December
20(th), 2016 - Cisco, Ericsson, Huawei and Nokia today announced they have
signed a MoU to create the NFV Interoperability Testing Initiative (NFV-ITI)
that will help communication service providers to address the challenges related
to NFV deployment and Cloud transformation within multi-vendor network
environments.
The deployment and integration of virtual network functions within today's
multi-vendor environments can introduce new interoperability challenges. To
address these challenges, NFV-ITI members will cooperatively support the
interoperability of NFV elements in specific customer situations to accelerate
the commercial implementations, and to reduce the time-to-market for new
applications and services.
All the existing NFV interoperability related testing activities have been
triggered by different needs of the industry, including the European
Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) NFV Testing WG, OPNFV testing
projects, Network Vendor Interoperability Testing (NVIOT) testing, and the New
IP Agency (NIA) interoperability testing.
Complementing all the existing NFV interoperability testing activities in the
industry, NFV-ITI will focus on testing interoperability configurations of
commercial NFV solutions actually used in the communication service providers'
networks. It will recommend generic principles, including interoperability test
cases, test criteria, processes, methods, guidelines, templates, and testing
tools, and will also apply best practices from all existing interoperability
testing activities in the industry, such as the NVIOT forum efforts. NFV-ITI
shall be well-aligned with the ETSI NFV Industry Specification Group and the
OPNFV project.
Charles Stucki, vice president and general manager, NFV Business Unit, Service
Provider Business, Cisco, said: "Cisco is focused on driving solutions for an
open network architecture, helping our service provider customers speed
technology adoption and time to market. NFV-ITI will foster collaboration and
open-ness by bringing top vendors together to explore new possibilities for
interoperability, and determine the best technology strategies for our customers
to achieve their business goals."
Martin Bäckström, vice president, Group Function Strategy & Technology,
Ericsson, said: "Through SDN, NFV, and Cloud technologies, Ericsson enables more
flexible and scalable networks that bring innovative services to customers
faster than ever before. By driving industry alignments on interoperability
testing in specific commercial deployments, NFV-ITI will accelerate
industrialization of NFV and help to create an even stronger ecosystem that
benefits operators, customers and vendors everywhere."
Long Jiping, vice president, R&D, Business Unit Cloud Core Network, Huawei,
said: "Cloud transformation has been the prevailing trend with carrier networks.
Huawei is dedicated to promoting cloud transformation and helping carriers to
construct an efficient, agile, and cloud-based network, by providing fully
cloudified products and solutions as well as an open and collaborative
ecosystem. NFV-ITI is an important step towards cooperation between vendors and
will address multi-vendor NFV interoperability challenges. We hope additional
vendors in this field can join us to create this mutually beneficial industry."
Ron Haberman, vice president, CloudBand, Nokia, said: "Supporting the creation
of the NFV-ITI is another step towards ensuring service providers can smoothly
migrate to cloud networks within today's multi-vendor environment.While the
network model is changing with NFV, the need for true carrier-grade performance
remains paramount. Ensuring the integration, automation and interoperability of
robust, well-architected virtualization solutions is critical to the
performance, scalability, resiliency and manageability our customers demand."
The general guiding principles for NFV-ITI are openness, fairness,
reasonableness and non-discriminatory treatment. All relevant NFV vendors are
welcome to join this initiative by ratifying the NFV-ITI MoU.
About Cisco
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the opportunities of tomorrow by proving that amazing things can happen when you
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About Ericsson
Ericsson is the driving force behind the Networked Society - a world leader in
communications technology and services. Our long-term relationships with every
major telecom operator in the world allow people, business and society to
fulfill their potential and create a more sustainable future.
Our services, software and infrastructure - especially in mobility, broadband
and the cloud - are enabling the telecom industry and other sectors to do better
business, increase efficiency, improve the user experience and capture new
opportunities.
With approximately 115,000 professionals and customers in 180 countries, we
combine global scale with technology and services leadership. We support
networks that connect more than 2.5 billion subscribers. Forty percent of the
world's mobile traffic is carried over Ericsson networks. And our investments in
research and development ensure that our solutions - and our customers - stay in
front.
Founded in 1876, Ericsson has its headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden. Net sales
in2015 were SEK 246.9 billion (USD 29.4 billion). Ericsson is listed on NASDAQ
OMX stock exchange in Stockholm and the NASDAQ in New York.
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About Huawei
Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT)
solutions provider. Driven by responsible operations, ongoing innovation, and
open collaboration, we have established a competitive ICT portfolio of end-to-
end solutions in telecom and enterprise networks, devices, and cloud computing.
Our ICT solutions, products, and services are used in more than 170 countries
and regions, serving over one-third of the world's population. With more than
170,000 employees, Huawei is committed to enabling the future information
society, and building a Better Connected World.
www.huawei.com
About Nokia
Nokia is a global leader in creating the technologies at the heart of our
connected world. Powered by the research and innovation of Nokia Bell Labs, we
serve communications service providers, governments, large enterprises and
consumers, with the industry's most complete, end-to-end portfolio of products,
services and licensing.
From the enabling infrastructure for 5G and the Internet of Things, to emerging
applications in virtual reality and digital health, we are shaping the future of
technology to transform the human experience. www.nokia.com
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NFV-ITI Joint PR Final:
http://hugin.info/1061/R/2066298/775710.pdf
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