· 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).
· 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 20th, 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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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,
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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
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