EMC and VMware Join OPNFV Project
The OPNFV Project, a community-led industry-supported open source flexible platform for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), today announced EMC has joined as a Platinum member, and VMware has joined as a Silver member. EMC joins Platinum members AT&T, Brocade, China Mobile, Cisco, Dell, Ericsson, HP, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Juniper Networks, NEC, Nokia Networks, DOCOMO, Red Hat, Telecom Italia, Vodafone and ZTE.
OPNFV is an open source project focused on accelerating the evolution of NFV. The project has united more than 100 developers from service providers and commercial suppliers to collaborate on the development of a carrier-grade, integrated, open source flexible platform for NFV. Members are committed to help advance the creation of a flexible, open source framework for NFV.
“The telecom industry is undergoing a fundamental transformation. EMC is pleased to be part of OPNFV and to support its mission to use open source in order to accelerate the evolution of NFV for the unique needs of the telecom industry during this time of massive change. Today EMC provides unique capabilities that enable carriers to optimize operations and monetize real-time data. Through our participation in OPNFV, we're committed to innovating for the future as we work closely with EMC's federation of businesses to build an NFV platform with differentiation at all levels of the stack,” said David Hudson, senior director of the Communication Service Provider Group, Office of CTO at EMC.
“VMware is committed to supporting communication service providers as they transform to next generation cloud infrastructures,” said David Wright, vice president of operations, Telco NFV group at VMware. “I’m delighted that VMware and our Federation partner EMC are joining the OPNFV project to help accelerate the adoption of virtualized network infrastructures using OpenStack, the open interfaces of choice for our customers.”
Paul To, director, Cloud & NFV, EMC, will join OPNFV’s board of directors as well as the Technical Steering Committee. As part of its Platinum membership, EMC is dedicating additional employee resources to OPNFV to help build the reference platform for NFV.
OPNFV is a Collaborative Project at The Linux Foundation. Linux Foundation Collaborative Projects are independently funded software projects that harness the power of collaborative development to fuel innovation across industries and ecosystems. www.linuxfoundation.org
