OPNFV's Brahmaputra, the community's second platform release comes out with the promise to deliver rich platform-level testing of NFV functionality and use cases, among other key enhancements.
Key to the enhancements is the ability to collaborate with upstream communities including OpenStack, OpenDaylight, OpenContrail, ONOS and ETSI on feature development and to address multiple technology components across the ecosystem. It pulled the latest code from these upstream communities while more than 30 accepted projects contributed new capabilities, specifications and community resources.
In terms of deployment and integration enhancements, Brahmaputra contains an increased number of components and scenarios, including support for additional SDN controllers and installers, such as OpenStack Liberty and OpenDaylight Beryllium, which can be used to build the platform.
OPNFV is also planning its first plugfest which will take place during the week of May 9th, 2016 at the CableLabs headquarters in Louisville, CO. The plugfest will give the industry the opportunity to collaborate and test interoperability of different products with the Brahmaputra release.
Chris Price, technical steering committee chair, OPNFV and Open Source Manager for SDN, Cloud & NFV, Ericsson
Building on the foundation of Arno, the OPNFV community worked tirelessly to integrate and combine components from multiple communities to deliver Brahmaputra, which brings end-to-end feature realization.
Steven Wright, Chair ETSI NFV ISG
We congratulate the OPNFV Community on the Brahmaputra release of their NFV Reference Platform. The system level validation testing in the YardStick Project using requirements from ETSI's DGS NFV TST 001 is an important step towards establishing and maintaining interoperability.
