Chances are you’re familiar with Linux, but for tech novices, it’s a collection of open-source software built upon the Linux kernel (the core of a computer operating system). Linux was first released in 1991 at about the same time I joined a small computer company in Austin, Texas that had a crazy notion to sell personal computers over the phone.
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The planets are aligning for both telco service providers and enterprises to tap into containers to help them manage their multicloud environments as well as scale out new services and applications for edge computing, 5G and IoT.
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The Linux Foundation’s OPNFV Project today issued its sixth platform release, named Fraser, adding more support for cloud native applications. And the release brings new testing capabilities that are already being used by ONAP and by Orange.
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Once the ETSI NFV Industry Specification Group (ISG) had defined NFV, its members recognised the need for open source to validate NFV activities. Hence after completing the initial phase of the NFV definition, many of the ISG companies collectively created the Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV) to look at integration and operational issues. These two groups continue to push the development of NFV, and central to both is testing and open source collaboration. But how exactly are OPNFV and ETSI NFV ISG collaborating, and what can the industry expect in the coming year?
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ETSI and OPNFV will co-locate their next community testing events in Sophia Antipolis, France. The third ETSI NFV Plugtests event will be held between 29 May and 8 June, and the OPNFV Fraser Plugfest will be held from 4 to 8 June.
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On the eve of next week’s ONS North America event, The Linux Foundation and the Open Compute Project (OCP) launched a collaborative effort to drive the development of open source networking based on software and hardware solutions.
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SAN JOSE, California — Disaggregation of hardware and software has created interest in open source at both layers of networks. But in an acknowledgement that these layers still need to work together, yesterday, the Linux Foundation Networking (LFN) group and the Open Compute Project (OCP) announced they plan to collaborate to harmonize hardware and software.
“The leader in open hardware, OCP, and the leader in open source software, the Linux Foundation, are coming together to provide an end-to-end stack,” said Arpit Joshipura, LFN’s general manager.
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The OPNFV Project has introduced the OPNFV Verified Program (OVP) with an eye toward simplifying adoption of commercial NFV products.
OVP establishes an industry threshold based on OPNFV capabilities and test cases. Users can get started at the new OPNFV Verified portal.
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The OPNFV Project has created a testing and verification process that lets vendors determine whether their commercial products comply with its initial criteria for key elements such as a NFV Infrastructure (NFVi) and a virtualized infrastructure manager (VIM), with the intent of speeding and simplifying commercialization.
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The OPNFV open source project today announced its OPNFV Verified Program (OVP), which will bring consistency to certification of network functions virtualization (NFV) components at the infrastructure level.
OPNFV has been helping vendors and service providers by testing NFV components across various open source ecosystems. Its new OVP initiative will formalize this process and even provide a “OVP certified” logo to components that comply.
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