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OPNFV's Third Platform Release Colorado Brings Key Enhancements to Security & Testing

OPNFV's Third Platform Release Colorado Brings Key Enhancements to Security & Testing Image Credit: OPNFV

The OPNFV Project, an open source project that facilitates the development and evolution of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) components, announced the availability of OPNFV Colorado, the project's third platform release.

Colorado includes critical advances that accelerate the development of NFV applications and services through key feature enhancements across security, IPv6, Service Function Chaining (SFC), testing, VPN capabilities, and support for multiple hardware architectures.

Key enhancements available in OPNFV Colorado include:

 - Core feature upgrades. These improvements come via focused collaboration with upstream communities and are centered on improving foundational support for NFV applications and services. 

 - Enhanced security by earning the Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII) Badge for best practices in open source development; 

 - Additionally, the Moon project has been prototyping identity federation and management for OpenStack and OpenDaylight.Service Function Chaining (SFC) now runs across multiple nodes, includes installer support for VNF Manager (Tacker) installation and support for enhanced cloud scenarios.

 - Improved IPv6 support includes IPv6-only deployments, full underlay and overlay support and integration with additional install tools.

 - The SDN VPN project now enables full Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPN support including BGP peering.

 - Full support for multiple hardware architectures, including both ARM® and x86 architectures.

 - Enhanced testing capabilities. Colorado includes a greater integration across testing projects with additional feature testing capabilities, and increased automation.Infrastructure and testing environment advancements. 

Heather Kirksey, director, OPNFV
The OPNFV community, in close collaboration with other upstream communities, has delivered enhanced capabilities most important to the NFV platform growth and maturity.

Chris Price, chair of technical steering committee, OPNFV and Open Source Manager for SDN, Cloud & NFV, Ericsson
The creation of working groups across MANO, Infrastructure, Security, and Testing also help the project evolve towards a foundational and robust industry platform for advanced open source NFV.

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