SAN FRANCISCO, July 31, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/
-- Building on its technical momentum and rapid community
growth, the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Project today
announced that Comcast, Fujitsu, Infosys, Netcracker Technology and
Samsung joined as new members to contribute to the open source
framework for network automation.
Just six months after launching, ONAP has doubled its roster of
members, community participants and projects to more than 900
contributors, 50 members and 30 projects. The addition of Comcast
and major Japanese and Korean companies, illustrate ONAP's
increasingly global impact and potential to transform and automate
networks with SDN/NFV.
The rapidly growing community is working to deliver a neutral
automation platform for network, infrastructure and services across
service providers, cloud providers and enterprises challenged to
provide on-demand services profitably and competitively, while
leveraging existing investments.
Combined with this solid foundation, the new members are helping
fuel ONAP's uptick on all fronts. The technical community is making
swift progress on the first release, Amsterdam. Due out later this year,
Amsterdam will be the first ONAP
release to integrate the original OPEN-O and ECOMP code bases into
a common, powerful orchestration platform. To move Amsterdam forward, the technical community met
this week and plans to convene outside of Paris in late September.
Additionally, the ONAP community has banded together to
establish a number of projects and technologies essential to VNF
orchestration that combine key features from both the OPEN-O and
ECOMP platforms. This includes a collection of tools and guidelines
that are designed to help vendors create, integrate and validate
their VNFs with ONAP. As part of this work, ONAP also announces the
acceptance of ICE.
ICE, developed at the AT&T Foundry in Palo Alto, Calif., is an incubation and
validation platform for VNF's that the TSC recently made a part of
ONAP. Now known as the VNF Validation Program (ICE) Project, it
includes a defined validation process and scripts that will form
the basis of the certification and self-test programs for ONAP.
This new project, along with the VNF Requirements Project and the
VNF SDK Project that draw on code from OPEN-O and ECOMP, will
define how VNFs can obtain an ONAP Compatible Label. Additional key
areas of integration include service orchestration, deployment and
monitoring of VNFs along with closed loop automation.
Furthermore, several uses cases required for carrier networks of
the future have also been approved by the TSC, including
Residential Broadband vCPE, vFW/vDNS and VoLTE.
With a vibrant and growing community committed to ONAP's
success, more than 10 global mobile service operators representing
43 percent of the worldwide mobile market are planning to use ONAP
to build and deliver the connected world of the future.
"We're excited to add new geographic and industry perspectives
to ONAP and incredibly impressed with the progress the technical
community is making with the first release," said Arpit Joshipura, General Manager, Networking at
The Linux Foundation. "Our growth in the past few months alone
proves telecommunications, cable/cloud operators and solution
providers believe there is a clear need for a common platform for
rapidly designing, implementing and managing differentiated
services with meaningful cost savings."
More about the newest members:
Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA) is a global media and
technology company with two primary businesses, Comcast Cable and
NBCUniversal. Comcast Cable is one of the nation's largest video,
high-speed internet, and phone providers to residential customers
under the XFINITY brand, and also provides these services to
businesses. It also provides wireless and security and automation
services to residential customers under the XFINITY brand.
NBCUniversal operates news, entertainment and sports cable
networks, the NBC and Telemundo broadcast networks, television
production operations, television station groups, Universal
Pictures and Universal Parks and Resorts. Visit
www.comcastcorporation.com for more information.
Fujitsu is the leading Japanese information and communication
technology (ICT) company, offering a full range of technology
products, solutions, and services. The company uses its experience
and the power of ICT to shape the future of society with its
customers. ONAP membership will help Fujitsu further advance
networks for enterprises and services providers eager to adopt
SDN/NFV.
Infosys is a global leader in technology services and
consulting. The company enables clients in 45 countries to create
and execute strategies for their digital transformation. From
engineering to application development, knowledge management and
business process management, Infosys helps clients find the right
problems to solve, and to solve these effectively.
The ONAP platform will be beneficial to Infosys clients aiming
to leverage their networks to deliver new on-demand, cloud
services.
Netcracker Technology, a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC
Corporation, is a forward-looking software company, offering
mission-critical solutions to service providers around the globe.
Its comprehensive portfolio of software solutions and professional
services enables large-scale digital transformations, unlocking the
opportunities of the cloud, virtualization and the changing mobile
ecosystem. With an unbroken service delivery track record of more
than 20 years, Netcracker's unique combination of technology,
people and expertise help companies transform their networks and
enable better experiences for their customers.
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. inspires the world and shapes the
future with transformative ideas and technologies. The company is
redefining the worlds of TVs, smartphones, wearable devices,
tablets, digital appliances, network systems, and memory, system
LSI and LED solutions. For the latest news, please visit the
Samsung Newsroom at http://news.samsung.com.
Samsung will jointly collaborate with many global operators and
solutions providers to generate alternatives to proprietary,
purpose-built orchestration tools, as well as turn APIs and an open
development platform into commercial-grade solutions.
All are invited to join the ONAP Technical Steering Committee to
work on this shared framework for automation of virtual network
functions.
Additional Resources
- Join the ONAP Technical Steering Committee
- Learn About ONAP Membership
- Access ONAP Code
About ONAP
The Open Network Automation Platform
(ONAP) Project brings together top global carriers and vendors with
the goal of allowing end users to automate, design, orchestrate and
manage services and virtual functions. ONAP unites two major open
networking and orchestration projects, open source ECOMP and the
Open Orchestrator Project (OPEN-O), with the mission of creating a
unified architecture and implementation and supporting
collaboration across the open source community. The ONAP Project is
a Linux Foundation project. For more information, visit
https://www.onap.org.
The Linux Foundation has registered trademarks and uses
trademarks. For a list of trademarks of The Linux Foundation,
please see our trademark usage page:
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a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds.
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