ZTE announced the completion of a joint project with Hewlett-Packard and China Unicom to demonstrate the feasibility of Network Function Virtualization(NFV)-based VoLTE services.
According to ZTE, the project comprised testing for an end-to-end VoLTE service in a virtualized environment that features multi-vendor solutions, covering interoperability of MANO functions and interfaces, VNF lifecycle management, VNF disaster recovery and maintenance management, VoLTE end-to-end functionality and performance, data plane acceleration and packet domain gateway functions of C/F separation.
To comply with European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) reference architecture, the project was completed using HP’s C7000 Blade server, and a virtualized infrastructure manager (VIM) provided by ZTE and HP. The project was also implemented using ZTE’s vEPC, vIMS, VNF Manager and EMS solutions, in addition to an NFV Orchestrator provided by both HP and ZTE.
