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Telefónica, NEC to Showcase vCPE for Automated Customer Deployment over NFV Platform

Telefónica, NEC to Showcase vCPE for Automated Customer Deployment over NFV Platform Image Credit: Telefónica

Telefónica and NEC Corporation will showcase virtual Customer Premises Equipment (vCPE) solution that is deployed and orchestrated over the NFV platform at the upcoming SDN & OpenFlow World Congress taking place in Swissôtel, Düsseldorf, from 14 - 17 October 2014.

The technology that is co-developed by both companies together with Intel at the Telefonica NFV Reference Lab enables certain IP functions to be shifted away from residential gateways towards a carrier's own network. The NFV platform used to set up this PoC is based on Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 servers, Intel® Data Plane Developer Kit (Intel® DPDK) and Intel® Niantic NICs, on Red Hat KVM environment and on Brocade switches. 

Leveraging on the vCPE technology, both companies plan to showcase the possibility of doing automated deployments of virtualized network nodes and their interconnections over an NFV platform that enables a deterministic resource allocation to virtual machines which ensures a high and predictable performance. 

According to NEC, the vCPE solution presented at the NFV PoC zone is being tested by NEC in the real network of Telefónica's Brazilian affiliate, VIVO, in an ongoing trial where economic benefits, network flexibility and user convenience is carefully being measured.

This demo shows how the use case of residential vCPE is deployed and orchestrated in an NFV open platform as the one created in our NFV Reference Lab. We are confident that the deployment of vCPE will play a key role in our plans of virtualizing infrastructures in Telefónica, where the availability of NFV-ready baseline technologies will be essential.

-            Enrique Algaba, Director of Network Innovation at Telefónica I+D – Global CTO Unit

This ongoing vCPE project is based on our global agreement and is a major step towards network virtualization. NEC will fully support Telefónica in this transformation by providing an ecosystem solution that enables significant OPEX savings as well as allowing easy and quick deployment of new services. Telefónica and NEC will work together in the implementation of this vCPE solution and accelerate NFV across the industry.

-           Atsuo Kawamura, Senior Vice President, NEC Corporation

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