NEC and its subsidiary Netcracker, Thursday unveiled Ecosystem 2.0 that enables its partners to certify their VNFs as commercially ready, working with the service orchestration, service design and business management applications of NEC/Netcracker's Agile Virtualization Platform and Practice (AVP).
It is designed to be the next evolution in partner collaboration that goes beyond VNF onboarding to solve operational and monetization issues for service providers that result in a digital marketplace of commercially ready services.
According to NEC/Netcracker, Ecosystem 2.0 facilitates this by creating deep relationships with our partners, including Juniper, Metaswitch and Versa Networks, and many others, to cover both the technical and commercial aspects of providing a large and constantly growing ecosystem library of commercially ready virtualized services.
VNF onboarding is an important first step in the process but only covers one piece of what it takes to get vendor VNFs ready for commercial service. In addition to seamless VNF onboarding, Ecosystem 2.0 offers an end-to-end service creation environment, including the definition, design, deployment, lifecycle management, BSS/OSS integration and assurance phases. Commercial agreements include full partner and license management together with advanced revenue share models, enabling monetization across multiple parties in the value chain. With Ecosystem 2.0, service providers and partners benefit from a real-time collaboration environment to assess and improve their services and VNFs.
Shigeru Okuya, GM, SDN/NFV Division at NEC Corporation
We are excited to announce NEC/Netcracker’s Ecosystem 2.0, which is focused on the service provider market and is part of the broader NEC SDN Partner Space, spanning telecom markets and enterprises.
Fran Heeran, SVP and GM of Netcracker SDN/NFV Business Unit
NEC/Netcracker’s Ecosystem 2.0 is an important next step for the industry, enabling new partner collaboration significantly beyond basic onboarding and giving service providers the tools they need to monetize virtualized services comprised of components from a large and growing range of vendors.