HPE announced that it will participate in the Linux Foundation’s OPNFV Pharos Project through the HPE OpenNFV Labs to help advance the evolution of network functions virtualization (NFV) and ensure consistency and interoperability for the HPE OpenNFV partner ecosystem.
In addition, HPE said that it will institute processes to verify that its more than 75 HPE OpenNFV partners have OPNFV compliant solutions. This will allow HPE OpenNFV partners to confirm they can run on the OPNFV platform and ensure OPNFV compatibility across environments and vendors, reinforcing HPE’s open, multi-vendor approach to NFV. Communications service providers (CSPs) will then then be able to connect with OPNFV-certified virtual network functions (VNF) partners through the HPE OpenNFV Solution Portal.
The Pharos project is a federated NFV testing infrastructure of community labs around the world designed for hosting continuous integration, deployment and testing of the OPNFV platform.
Prodip Sen, CTO, NFV, HPE and board chair, OPNFV
Our involvement in OPNFV Pharos Labs and our plan to integrate HPE and OPNFV’s onboarding processes are evidence of HPE’s commitment to open source and demonstrate how HPE OpenNFV and OPNFV are complementary efforts to accelerate NFV deployments.
Heather Kirksey, director, OPNFV
With a broad industry involved in the development of NFV, we’re seeing increased collaboration across the ecosystem. We welcome HPE’s OpenNFV lab and the focus on interoperability which will benefit the greater ecosystem.
