ZTE has joined the OPNFV (Open Platform for NFV) Project, a community-led industry supported open source reference platform for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) as a Platinum member. The chinese telecom vendor joins the other Platinum members including AT&T, Brocade, China Mobile, Cisco, Dell, Ericsson, HP, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Juniper Networks, NEC, Nokia Networks, NTT DOCOMO, Red Hat, Telecom Italia and Vodafone.
OPNFV, a new open source project focused on accelerating NFV's evolution through an integrated, open platform was establised last month by a leading group of solution vendors and service provides led by the Linux Foundation as a open source reference platform with the intention to accelerate the introduction of new products and services using NFV. The platform is expected to increase the performance and power efficiency, improve reliability, availability and serviceability, and deliver comprehensive platform instrumentation.
Dick Chen, principal architect of corporate CTO group, ZTE, will join OPNFV's board of directors, and Jun Zhang, radio network architect, ZTE, will join OPNFV's Technical Steering Committee.
Dr. Xianming Zhao, CTO, ZTE Corporation
The market is embracing SDN and NFV, which opens doors for many opportunities for the industry to innovate and provide new services much faster. Industry-wide collaboration on an open NFV platform will allow us to address critical concerns upfront and build a common reference platform. This will establish an open ecosystem for NFV solutions based on open standards and open source software.
Margaret Chiosi, president, OPNFV
The advent of SDN and NFV has brought about the biggest shift in networking in the past 20 years. To make the technologies successful, we need to collaborate to build a common foundation for the future of networks. We look forward to seeing ZTE take an active role in helping to make OPNFV and open source NFV successful.
