Slashing the costs of network virtualization: Artesyn’s Open Compute Project platform
The Centellis® OCP Platform is designed to help communication service providers dramatically lower the capital and operating expense associated with running their networks by leveraging open standard and open source hardware and software, and taking advantage of virtualization and cloud technologies.
This new Centellis OCP Platform is a rack solution that integrates servers, storage and top-of-rack switches, and offers improvements in density, availability, flexibility, scalability, serviceability, manageability, and ease of deployment versus traditional rack servers.
The Centellis OCP Platform is designed for the development and deployment of network functions virtualization (NFV) applications orchestrated by software-defined networking (SDN).
It is compatible with Artesyn’s Centellis® Virtualization Platform, which is based on a field-proven software framework for NFV. This gives service providers a common application deployment software platform, which is independent of the hardware architecture and can support the scaling of virtual network functions (VNFs) from the edge to the core of carrier networks.
Artesyn has published an eBook, The Guide to OCP for Smart Carriers, which explores how OCP technologies offer great promise for service providers and considers the challenges in making these technologies viable for carrier networks.
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