Luxoft, Cobham Wireless, and Telefónica collaborate on NFV
The demonstration will be conducted at many upcoming major industry events, including Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. This technological advance decreases time-to-market for Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Virtual Network Function (VNF) vendors.
The breakthrough was performed on Luxoft’s Network Function Virtualization Orchestration platform SuperCloud, using Telefónica’s Open-VIM (Open Virtual Infrastructure Manager), part of the OpenMANO (Open MANagement and Orchestration) stack that Telefónica released as Open Source in March 2015, and Cobham Wireless’s TeraVM test system in a VNF and a VNF-Controller configuration.
The demonstration shows the “set-up, testing, and break-down” of a test bed consisting of virtual network elements, where the device-under-test could be either a Virtual Network Function or a series of VNF’s forming a Network Service.
The successful proof of concept demonstrates that the partnership of Luxoft, Cobham Wireless and Telefónica can cover the full spectrum of steps necessary to orchestrate and automate the entire lifecycle of VNFs, which is integral to enabling faster time-to-market and reducing operational overhead.
According to Robert Winters, TeraVM Director at Cobham Wireless, “This demonstration paves the way for widespread adoption of virtualized network technology anticipated during 2016 and beyond.”
Luxoft’s Vice President for Technology Strategy added, “The two most important benefits shown during this demonstration, faster time-to-market and reduction of operational overhead, are applicable to carriers, operators, large and niche VNF vendors, and many others. We believe that the collaboration between Luxoft, Cobham Wireless, and Telefónica is quite unique as we can serve essentially all aspects of the market, an unparalleled offering today.”
“Supporting our customers in the agile roll-out of new services is of paramount importance to Telefónica,” said Antonio Elizondo, Head of Network Virtualisation Strategy and Technology, Global CTO Unit, Telefónica. “Collaborations with industry players like Cobham Wireless and Luxoft shows how we can offer and increase our capability to provide a complete multi-vendor NFV solution where we can rely on Open Source projects acting as de facto standards.”
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