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AT&T, which recently announced plans to contribute its Enhanced Control, Orchestration, Management and Policy (ECOMP) platform to open source, announced that Orange is now planning to test the platform for creating and managing its own software-defined network. Orange is the first telecom company to join AT&T’s ECOMP effort. The carriers have agreed to collaborate on […]
Amdocs will serve as integrator for telecom companies and cloud developers who want to use AT&T’s ECOMP platform to build their own software-centric network services. ECOMP is the service orchestration system that powers the AT&T software-defined network (SDN). Earlier this month, AT&T confirmed that it is committed to releasing ECOMP into open source. Amdocs said […]
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is launching an industry collaboration with Intel to expand access to domestic manufacturing capabilities for custom chips for defense systems. DARPA’s Structured Array Hardware for Automatically Realized Applications (SAHARA) program is partnership with Intel and academic researchers from University of Florida, University of Maryland, and Texas A&M […]
AT&T has selected Amdocs’cloud-native Openet 5G solution to monetize services over its 5G network. The 5G monetization solution is certified to run on AWS and Microsoft Azure. Financial terms were not disclosed. Amdocs said its solution supports AT&T’s strategy to take full advantage of its 5G network by quickly launching new services to market such […]
Cumulus Networks announced support for switching platforms powered by the new Broadcom Trident 3 (TD3) ASIC. Key capabilities: Simplified EVPN operations: built-in simplicity on different technological layers, thus reducing human errors and downtime. Scale and robustness in data and control plane: The EVPN solution on Trident 3 supports VXLAN routing/tunneling in a single pass at […]
Facebook outlined its plan for Open Packet DWDM for metro and long-haul fiber optic transport networks. The idea is to “enable a clean separation of software and hardware” based on open specifications. Facebook had already developed a new “white box” transponder and routing platform called Voyager based on Open Packet DWDM, which it will contribute […]
Netronome announced the addition of Express Virtio (XVIO) technology to its Agilio Server Networking Platform. The XVIO technology brings to the standard Virtio drivers available in many Guest OS’s the level of performance of SR-IOV solutions but maintains full VM mobility. The advanced XVIO technology is based on and builds upon industry standard and open […]
A survey of the OpenStack user base has found that cost savings is primary motivation for deploying the technology. The survey was conducted by the OpenStack Foundation. Some key findings: Seventy-two percent of OpenStack users cite cost savings as their No. 1 business driver. The Net Promoter Score (NPS) for OpenStack deployments—an indicator of user […]
AT&T is adding Palo Alto Networks’ next-generation security platform to its catalog of virtual network functions (VNFs) available to global business customers on-demand. AT&T FlexWare, formerly called AT&T Network Functions on Demand, is available globally through the AT&T Network on Demand platform. AT&T FlexWare now offers two device form factors, a small device that can […]
The OPNFV Project announced its third platform release: Colorado. OPNFV Colorado brings advances to 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. “Colorado represents a more robust version of OPNFV’s previous Brahmaputra platform,” said Heather […]
Open vSwitch (OVS), which is an open source virtual switch designed to enable network automation while supporting standard management interfaces and protocols, is now a Linux Foundation Project. OVS was developed to address the rapidly growing needs of SDN and virtual networking use cases. It has been ported to multiple virtualization platforms, switching chipsets, and […]
AT&T announced the launch of its Network Functions on Demand service in 76 countries and territories, including: AMERICAS – Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Curacao, Dominican Republic,Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, United States, Uruguay, U.S. Virgin Islands and Venezuela ASIA PAC – Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, […]
Plarform9 announced support for Docker containers with its enterprises-ready, container management and orchestration platform, which is based on Kubernetes. Platform9 said Kubernetes is the leader among a new class of container management frameworks because it provides features such as service discovery, load balancing and application lifecycle management. Platform9 adds features such as single sign on […]
The OpenSwitch Project, which is developing an open source, Linux-based Network Operating System, will be managed as a Linux Foundation project. OpenSwitch is designed to power enterprise grade switches from multiple hardware vendors that will enable organizations to rapidly build data center networks that are customized for unique business needs. OpenSwitch also includes optional integration […]
Netronome introduced a P4 and C compliant Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for dynamically programming new networking capabilities on its Agilio CX and LX family of intelligent server adapters (ISAs). The news is significant because bringing SDN capabilities into a server NIC could help identify and resolve tenant application performance bottlenecks rapidly, enabling cloud service providers […]
Cavium announced support for the OpenSwitch open source network operating system (NOS) on Cavium XPliant switches. Additionally, Cavium introduced Open APIs for the XPliant Programmable Switch (OpenXPS) open source software. OpenSwitch is an open source, community-led Linux-based network operating system, launched by Hewlett Packard Enterprise and other industry leaders in October 2015, optimized for the […]
The OpenDaylight Project released Beryllium (Be) – the fourth release of its open source platform for programmable, software-defined networking platform. New Features in OpenDaylight Beryllium Performance and Scalability: Stronger analysis and testing of clustering (where multiple instances of ODL act as one logical controller) appear in ODL Be. Applications that want to be cluster-aware can […]
The second release of Atrium, an open SDN software distribution from The Open Networking Foundation (ONF), extends support for the OpenDaylight platform into the Atrium software router. Specifically, the router in the new Atrium release is built on the OpenDaylight framework and controls OpenFlow hardware switches using Quagga’s open-source implementation of the Border Gateway Protocol […]
