Broadcom Corporation, a global innovation leader in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, unveils its Open Network Function Virtualization (NFV) platform that will be showcased at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, February 24 - 27. This platform is designed to accelerate NFV adoption by allowing implementation of applications across multiple system-on-a-chip (SoC) processor solutions based on diverse Instruction Set Architectures (ISA).
Broadcom says, with the new Open NFV platform, OEMs and ecosystem vendors can easily migrate virtual functions (VF) between platforms based on various vendor solutions. A proof of concept (PoC) demonstrating a live VF state migration between multiple ISAs has been approved by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) NFV Industry Specification Group (ISG)1.
“As more organizations move toward an NFV model, they will need an easy way to migrate virtual functions across platforms," said Werner Schaefer, Hewlett Packard Vice President, Network Functions Virtualization. "Industry collaboration via open standards, like those supported by Broadcom and HP, enable customers to move NFV forward from concept into reality through tight interoperability between all of the components needed to rollout an Open NFV platform."
"Customers have been asking for an ISA-independent solution to migrate virtual functions across diverse platforms, something they didn't previously have," said Ron Jankov, Broadcom Senior Vice president and General Manager, Processors and Wireless Infrastructure. "Broadcom's partnership with ARM and other third party vendors helps advance our NFV goals and meet the workload flexibility and scalability needs of our customers, while maintaining our commitment to a truly open ecosystem."
Source - Broadcom