The open source platform for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), OPNFV Project, has received major backing from EMC and VMware. EMC joins as a Platinum member, along with others such as AT&T, Brocade, China Mobile, Cisco, Dell, Ericsson, HP, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Juniper Networks, NEC, Nokia Networks, DOCOMO, Red Hat, Telecom Italia, Vodafone and ZTE. VMware joins as a Silver member.
According to OPNFV, both EMC and VMware are providing a deep ecosystem of solutions, technologies and partnerships that enable telcos to leverage NFV, big data and the cloud to transform their core networks. Paul To, director, Cloud & NFV, EMC, will join OPNFV's board of directors as well as the Technical Steering Committee. As part of its Platinum membership, EMC is dedicating additional employee resources to OPNFV to help build the reference platform for NFV.
The OPNFV project, a collaborative project at the Linux Foundation has todate gathered around 100 developers from service providers and commercial suppliers to collaborate on the development of a carrier-grade, integrated, open source flexible platform for NFV.
David Hudson, Senior Director, Communication Service Provider Group, Office of CTO at EMC Corporation
The telecom industry is undergoing a fundamental transformation. EMC is pleased to be part of OPNFV and to support its mission to use open source in order to accelerate the evolution of NFV for the unique needs of the telecom industry during this time of massive change. Today EMC provides unique capabilities that enable carriers to optimize operations and monetize real-time data. Through our participation in OPNFV, we're committed to innovating for the future as we work closely with EMC's federation of businesses to build an NFV platform with differentiation at all levels of the stack.
David Wright, VP, Operations, Telco NFV Group, VMware
VMware is committed to supporting communication service providers as they transform to next generation cloud infrastructures. I'm delighted that VMware and our Federation partner EMC are joining the OPNFV project to help accelerate the adoption of virtualized network infrastructures using OpenStack, the open interfaces of choice for our customers.