ZTE announced that it has completed tests set up by the research arm of China Mobile for the Internet of Things (IoT) docking and interoperability, a key step in the deployment of cloud-based network function virtualization (NFV) technologies. During the NFV test, ZTE adopted management and orchestration (MANO) and IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) solutions.
ZTE has collaborated with various partners including VMware, Hewlett-Packard and Red Hat in a multi-vendor test environment designed to verify the interoperability of different configurations of hardware resource layers, virtual resource layers and virtualized network functions (VNF) layers.
The Chinese telecoms vendor said that it is in full compliance of China Mobile’s requirements for a comprehensive range of IoT network virtualization functions including network element (NE) template management, fast and automatic service deployment, virtual machine (VM) migration, failure recovery, as well as dynamic scale-in and scale-out.
