Chinese telecoms solution vendor, Huawei has partnered with open source software provider, Red Hat to complete the first phase multi-vendor testing involving Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) technologies over LTE network.
According to Huawei, both companies have conducted high performance LTE tests in heavy-traffic scenarios in NFV/Software-defined networking (SDN) Open Labs in Xi'an, China, to facilitate and accelerate NFV development. They also tested and verified multi-vendor vertical integration, virtualized network function (VNF) integration, MANO integration, data throughput capabilities, and load balancing capabilities.
Red Hat has supported Huawei's efforts to integrate Huawei FusionServer E9000, Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6, Huawei CloudEdge solutions (for Virtualized Unified Intelligence Controller [vUIC], virtualized Evolved Packet Core [vEPC], and virtualized Multi-Service Engine [vMSE]), as well as management and orchestration (MANO).
Huawei and Red Hat plan to further cooperate on more NFV products in the future, including the Huawei CloudCore solutions and FusionServer F8000 servers.
Zhai Zhongcheng, General Manager of NFV Integration Services, Huawei
As a leader of OpenStack and the open-source domain, Red Hat is a major contributor to development in this field. Huawei will continue to cooperate with Red Hat and other partners to promote NFV technology development. With these collaborations, we hope to conduct more tests in NFV/SDN Open Labs to provide carrier-grade NFV-based solutions, and to tackle challenges in network evolution.
Radhesh Balakrishnan, General Manager of OpenStack, Red Hat Inc
Huawei's NFV/SDN Open Labs offer expert resources around the world, and provide customers and partners with a professional verification platform. In supporting Huawei's testing, we focused on achieving open NFV network evolution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.
