Orange said it plans to leverage AT&T’s ECOMP platform for testing its software-defined network, making it the first operator to join the effort.
This supplements both operator's recent announcement that they will collaborate on open source and standardization initiatives to accelerate the standardization of software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) technologies.
ECOMP, which stands for Enhanced Control, Orchestration, Management and Policy, is the software platform AT&T created to power its new network. ECOMP lets service providers quickly add features and drive down operations costs. It gives service providers and businesses anywhere more control of their network services, and enables developers to create new services.
AT&T has commited to release the ECOMP as an open source software and make the platform to be accessible to other operators and cloud developers.
Chris Rice, Senior Vice President - Domain 2.0 Architecture and Design, AT&T
ECOMP is a stake in the ground. It’s a declaration that networks of the future will be software-centric, that they’ll be faster, more responsive to customer needs, and more efficient. Orange’s decision, as one of the leading international carriers in the world, is a great endorsement of that approach.
Alain Maloberti, Senior Vice President Orange Labs Network at Orange
We jointly believe that a platform like ECOMP needs a strong and dynamic open source community to drive industry adoption, and we will work with AT&T to create a community to develop a reference software platform for automated network orchestration and management.
