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HP Unveils Pre-Integrated NFV Platform to Help CSPs Accelerate NFV Deployments

HP Unveils Pre-Integrated NFV Platform to Help CSPs Accelerate NFV Deployments Image Credit: Hewlett Packard

HP on Tuesday unveiled HP NFV System, a pre-integrated network functions virtualization (NFV) platform designed to enable communications service providers (CSPs) to accelerate production NFV deployments. HP NFV System is pre-integrated with HP Helion OpenStack Carrier Grade platform to provide an open source based cloud platform to support CSPs' NFV workloads. According to HP, its Technology Services arm will provide professional services to help CSPs deploy the solution and transition to NFV architecture.  

HP also introduced NFV Director 3.0, providing management and orchestration capabilities that enhance the flexibility and scalability of CSPs current operations support systems (OSS), as well as new analytics capabilities to help harness NFV data to enhance real-time decision making. 

Supporting the HP NFV Director is the new HP NFV analytics that is powered by HP Vertica, providing CSPs the ability to make decisions in real time using NFV data to improve uptime, traffic steering, resource, application and network usage. Predictive analytics gives CSPs critical insights on trending as well as historical capacity usage and threshold crossing warnings (alarms).

In addition, the company introduced the NFV System kits that are built based on HP’s extensive NFV proof-of-concept experience and are designed to handle a variety of NFV use cases. The kits are designed with an optimal mix of hardware and software to simplify and accelerate NFV deployments, providing customers a simplified end-to-end experience from ordering, deployment, operations, lifecycle management and services. 

Saar Gillai, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Network Functions Virtualization and global lead, Telecommunications, HP
Many telcos and suppliers have done NFV proof-of-concepts and are now ready to move to production. To do that, they need solutions that are open, carrier grade, and easy to deploy. HP NFV System provides an integrated, pre-tested, deployment-ready NFV hardware and software platform to get customers up-and-running quickly and confidently.”

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