Huawei today announced the launch of its new, state-of-the-art Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) open lab in Xi’an, China. The new lab, said Huawei is dedicated to host multi-vendor integration verification capabilities, expanding joint service innovations with customers, partners and industrial organizations and accelerating development of the open eco-system for NFV infrastructure, platforms and services. Global leading operators and partners, including China Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, VMware, Red Hat and Canonical, attended the launch ceremony. Huawei announced its plans to build NFV Open Lab for global operators and partners November last year.
According to Huawei, it will continuously build its multi-vendor integration verification platform based on typical service scenarios, as well as accumulate experience through ongoing tests and projects to eventually build an NFV big data analysis platform. Huawei said that together with its partners, it will work to verify and enhance NFV system integration and O&M technical support capabilities. In the initial phase, Huawei will be working closely with China Mobile, VMware, and Red Hat on these areas. Huawei added that it is currently partnering more than 20 global leading operators on joint innovations and project verifications to accelerate NFV transformation and achieve win-win solutions.
Dr. Howard Liang, Senior Vice President and President of Global Technical Services, Huawei
The NFV open lab is an open innovation center of ICT convergence dedicated to being open and collaborative, expanding joint service innovations with partners, and developing the open eco-system of NFV to aggregate values and help customers achieve business success.
