China Mobile has partnered with ARM, Cavium and Enea to co-develop an Open NFV Testlab. The collaboration will use Enea’s OPNFV-based commercial, Enea NFV Core platform, and Cavium’s ARM-based ThunderX workload-optimized datacenter server processors.
China Mobile’s Open NFV Testlab will host the platform as part of China Mobile’s Telecom Integrated Cloud (TIC). The work will include validation of a variety of NFV tests cases - vCPE, vBRAS, vEPC, vIMS - while supporting Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) project development and integration.
Enea claims that the OPNFV based NFV Core platform is the industry’s first NFV platform that is hardened and optimized for ARM servers out of the box. Enea NFV Core is based on the latest OPNFV release, purpose built for telecom use cases and highly integrated, including telecom driven optimizations and enhancements.
Noel Hurley, VP and GM, Networking and servers, Business Segments Group, ARM
ARM and its ecosystem of partners have been committed to enabling OPNFV to bring efficient and cost-effective compute power for the world's data networks. The network pipeline must be expanded, at scale, to support new computing across all markets, in the most efficient way possible. Our ecosystem delivers this efficiency through well-integrated solutions that demonstrate the performance-per-watt, density, and TCO advantages provided by ARM technology.
Raj Singh, VP and GM, Network & Communication Group, Cavium
We are very pleased to collaborate with China Mobile to enable key NFV functionality and to drive NFV towards large scale industry deployment with diversified and interoperable eco-systems. Telco applications with various compute, I/O, and real time processing requirements demand highly scalable and optimized processing solutions.
