ETSI’s Open Source MANO (OSM) group this week announced the availability of its OSM Release ONE, an open source Management and Orchestration (MANO) software stack closely aligned with ETSI NFV, and focused on helping industry accelerate the implementation of network virtualization.
The OSM community aims to deliver a production-quality open source MANO stack that meets the requirements of commercial NFV networks.
ETSI said the Release ONE substantially enhances interoperability with other components (VNFs, VIMs, SDN controllers) and creates a plugin framework to make platform maintenance and extensions significantly easier to provide and support.
In addition, Release ONE improves administrator and developer experience, both in terms of usability and installation procedure as well as enhances modelling of VNFs and network services. In line with the goals of the OSM open source project, the output of this modelling work will be contributed to ETSI NFV. Release ONE also provides extremely flexible virtualized network functions (VNF) configuration and advanced networking management as well as improved troubleshooting capabilities, with advanced logging.
Andy Reid, ETSI OSM vice chairman and Chief Researcher, Network Services, BT
ETSI OSM is unique as it is an operators led group and has spent the early months working on cutting code, having great freedom to progress technical work.
Francisco-Javier Ramón, ETSI OSM Chair and Head of Network Virtualisation Initiative at Telefónica, Global CTO
The pace of the group’s work has been amazing, and as one of the fastest growing NFV and SDN open source projects, OSM now proudly counts 46 members including many of the leading global operators.
