Bringing it home with Jerma: The 10th and final OPNFV release
By Al Morton, OPNFV TSC Chair The parade of once-in-a-lifetime events during 2020 made it a year that many would prefer to forget, world-wide! OPNFV participants and their LFN staff…
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OPNFV Iruya: Paving the Way for 5G via Testing Tools, Scripts, and Automation
Today, the OPNFV community is pleased to announce the availability of OPNFV Iruya, the platform’s 9th release. After more than 5 years, the community continues to rally together, build upon…
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OPNFV Turns 5
Happy Fifth Birthday to the project, the community, and to the industry’s open source NFV journey! The past five years have been a time of growth, challenges, learned wisdom, friends…
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What I learned at the ONAP & OPNFV Event in Paris-Saclay
By Phil Robb, VP of Operations, Networking & Orchestraion, Linux Foundation The ONAP and OPNFV projects kicked off 2019 with a combined developer event at the Nokia Paris-Saclay facility in…
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Enea NFV Core Receives OPNFV Verification Program Badge
By Ciprian Barbu, Technical Team Leader, Enea How do you make sure that an open source-based product meets all interoperability, stability and functionality requirements when the underlying open source project is…
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OPNFV Intern Spotlight: Sofia Enriquez
About Sofia (in her own words): I am from Buenos Aires and am currently pursuing my engineering degree at the National Technology University of Argentina. I spent a lot of…
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Nokia proudly presents: OPNFV Gambia Plugfest and ONAP Dublin Developer Forum
By Timo Perälä, Nokia The new year will see more than 200 engineers from all over the world gather at our Paris-Saclay site for a Nokia hosted open source event –…
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OPNFV Gambia — Doing what we do best while advancing cloud native
Author: Tim Irnich, former TSC Chair Today, the OPNFV community is pleased to announce the availability of Gambia, our seventh platform release! I am extremely proud of the way the…
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Cross-Project Collaboration a Focus as Fifth OPNFV Plugfest Co-locates with Third ETSI Plugtest Event to Learn, Test and Integrate OPNFV Fraser
By: Pierre Lynch, Lead Technologist at Ixia Solutions Group, Keysight Technologies The OPNFV Plugfest was held the first week of June in conjunction – for the first time – with…
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The (OPNFV) Doctor Is In
By Tomi Juvonen, Technical Lead at Nokia and Doctor Project PTL This post was originally published on Nokia's blog and has been republished here with permission. Long ago, networks comprised…
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OPNFV Fraser: Maturity and Cloud Native Integration for Developers and End Users Alike
By Tim Irnich, Chair, OPNFV Technical Steering Committee and Program Manager, Cloud, Open Source & Ecosystem at Ericsson Today, the Fraser release goes live. It’s an important milestone for OPNFV,…
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Solving Problems Collaboratively at 4th OPNFV Plugfest for Euphrates and Beyond
By Ray Paik, OPNFV Senior Program Manager, The Linux Foundation The fourth OPNFV Plugfest, hosted by Intel at their Jones Farm Campus outside of Portland, OR was held on December 4-8, 2017.…
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Crossing a New Milestone in NFV: Open Source Verification of Commercial Products
By Chris Donley, Sr Director, Open Source Ecosystems, Huawei; Chair, OPNFV Certification & Compliance Committee As we kick off 2018, the OPNFV Compliance & Certification committee—the members driven body within…
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A 2017 Reflection: Transforming Networks Through Open Source NFV
Read the full 2017 OPNFV Year in Review report here. It is with gratitude and pleasure that I look back on our accomplishments of 2017 and with excitement for the…
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Intern POV: Euphrates Plugfest
OPNFV interns Shrenik Jain and Aakash Kt had the opportunity to attend the recent Euphrates Plugfest, held at the Intel campus in Hillsboro, Oregon, December 5-9. We had the chance to…
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How Orange is Leveraging OPNFV for Full-Scale NFV Rollout
This post intially published to The New Stack By: Jehanne Savi, executive, All IT Strategic Programs, Orange Mandatory for the next generation of networks (such as 5G) and services, NFV transformation…
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Invest in the future of NFV and your career at OPNFV Euphrates Plugfest, Dec 4-8
By Sandra Rivera, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Network Platforms Group, Intel Corporation From December 4th through the 8th, Intel will host the OPNFV Euphrates Plugfest at its Jones…
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Open Source Software and the Network of Tomorrow
This post originally appeared on the DARPA Hackfest blog. When I look at innovative developments in software defined radio (SDR), I can’t help but view those in a larger context…
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OPNFV Book Preview #4: “DevOps for NFV: OPNFV Infrastructure and Continuous Integration
This post first appeared on Linux.com By Amar Kapadia In this article series, we have been discussing the Understanding OPNFV book. Previously, we talked about chapters 1-5 via an introduction…
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OPNFV Community Delivers Euphrates
By Tapio Tallgren Three years after its founding, OPNFV has carved out a solid niche in the industry as an NFV center of gravity, as an integrator of upstream projects,…
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XCI: How OPNFV Slashed Upstream Integration from Months to Days
By Fatih Degirmenci, Yolanda Robla Mota, Markos Chandras The OPNFV Community will soon issue its fifth release, OPNFV Euphrates. Over the past four releases, the community has introduced different components…
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OPNFV Intern Spotlight: Shrenik Jain
We kicked off our intern program last summer and are pleased to have welcomed an amazing group of young talent! They work directly with the community and receive hands-on development…
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Virtual Central Office: Laying the Foundations From the Community
By: Hanen Garcia Gamardo, Technical Product Marketing Manager, Telco Solutions, Red Hat Today's challenge for communication service providers (CSPs) for delivering services as close as possible to customers cannot be…
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OPNFV Book Preview #3: All Roads Lead to OPNFV
This post first appeared on Linux.com By Amar Kapadia Previously in our discussion of the Understanding OPNFV book, we provided an introduction to network functions virtualization (NFV) and explored the…
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OPNFV Co-Hosts The Linux Foundation’s Inaugural Open Source Networking Days
This post first appeared on Linuxfoundation.org By: Arpit Joshipura One of my primary goals at The Linux Foundation is to foster innovation across the entire open source networking ecosystem. This…
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OPNFV Intern Spotlight: Aakash Kt
We have a thriving intern program and are pleased to welcome even more talented students to the OPNFV community! OPNFV interns work directly with the community and receive hands-on development…
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Book Preview, part 2: OPNFV’s Role in Network Transformation
This post first appeared on LinuxFoundation.org By Amar Kapadia The Understanding OPNFV book takes an in-depth look at network functions virtualization (NFV) and provides a comprehensive overview of The Linux Foundation’s OPNFV project.…
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Book Preview: Understanding OPNFV
This post originally appeared on Linux.com By Amar Kapadia If telecom operators or enterprises were to build their networks from scratch today, they would likely build them as software-defined resources,…
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Communications Service Providers increasingly using OPNFV for NFV Deployments
By Sandra Rivera, Vice President and General Manager, Network Platforms Group at Intel Corporation, and OPNFV Marketing Committee Chair During the recent OPNFV Summit in Beijing, we announced the results of…
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OPNFV Compliance Verification Program
By Wenjing Chu, Distinguished Engineer and Senior Director of Open Source and Standards at Huawei In the late 80’s, I was a college student studying computer science in the northwestern suburb…
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Testing, MANO Integration, and Hardware Progress with Third OPNFV Plugfest, Hosted By Orange
By OPNFV Ambassador and community members, Morgan Richomme & Xiaolong Kong The third edition of the OPNFV Plugfest, jointly organized by OPNFV and Orange, was held at the Orange Gardens,…
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OPNFV Summit Keynote Preview: Q&A with HPE’s Prodip Sen
HPE’s Dr. Prodip Sen, CTO of NFV at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and OPNFV Board of Directors Chair, will deliver a keynote address during the upcoming OPNFV Summit focused on “Cloudification of…
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OPNFV Summit Keynote Preview: Q&A with ZTE
ZTE's Zhang Fan, Chief Architect of Packet Core, will deliver a keynote address at the upcoming OPNFV Summit focused on "NFV Practice for vEPC Commercial Network." Read below for a preview of…
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OPNFV Summit Keynotes Highlight Next-Gen Networking Trends
First posted on Linux.com The countdown to this year’s OPNFV Summit is on! We’re headed to Beijing June 12-15 for four days of connecting global communities via tutorials, sessions, demos…
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OPNFV Webinar – The Foundation for Virtualized Networking
Content first posted on Linux.com Click HERE to register for this free webinar on Wednesday, May 24 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time. The Open Platform for Network Functions Virtualization (OPNFV)…
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OPNFV Developer Spotlight: Sofia Wallin
The OPNFV community is comprised of a diverse set of active developers who are passionate about transforming the industry through open source NFV. This blog series highlights the people who…
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OPNFV Day: The Nuts and Bolts of Open Source NFV with OPNFV & OpenStack
The OPNFV community, comprised of a diverse ecosystem of developers, vendors, operators, end users and others working to integrate the end-to-end open networking stack, will be hosting an OPNFV Day…
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From Santa Clara, with Love: OPNFV Highlights from Open Networking Summit 2017
The OPNFV community was out in full force during the Open Networking Summit in Santa Clara, CA earlier this month. With the announcement of our fourth platform release, OPNFV Danube,…
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The Mighty Danube: OPNFV’s Milestone Fourth Release
By Tapio Tallgren The OPNFV community has achieved another milestone: its fourth release, Danube. I’d like to extend a big “thank you” to everyone who contributed to the release! Although…
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SNAPS-OO Project Comes to OPNFV
By Guest Blogger Randy Levensalor, Lead Architect, Business Technologies, CableLabs This post first published on the CableLabs blog. In a previous blog, I have provided an overview of the SNAPS platform…
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OPNFV Intern Spotlight: Rohit Sakala
We kicked off our intern program last summer and are pleased to have welcomed an amazing group of young talent! They work directly with the community and receive hands-on development…
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How OPNFV Executed 32 Successful Test Sessions During Recent ETSI Plugtests
By Brady Johnson (Ericsson) and Prithiv Mohan (Intel) OPNFV recently had a chance to participate in the first ETSI NFV Plugtests, held January 23-February 3 in Madrid, Spain. As the first-ever…
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OPNFV Intern Spotlight: Shubham Rathi
We kicked off our intern program a few months back and are pleased to welcome our first group of OPNFV interns! They work directly with the community and receive hands-on…
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Interoperability Testing Evolves With Second OPNFV Plugfest
By Lincoln Lavoie, senior engineer, Broadband Technologies, University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) Wrapping up the OPNFV Colorado release work in 2016, the OPNFV Plugfest and co-located Hackfest in…
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OPNFV Intern Spotlight: Akshita Jha
We kicked off our intern program a few months back and are pleased to welcome our first group of OPNFV interns! They work directly with the community and receive hands-on…
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2016 in Reflection: A Year of Transitions & Beginnings
A Message from the Board of Directors’ Chair By Prodip Sen As we begin 2017, OPNFV is now in its third year of existence. Where we are as a community…
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OPNFV Intern Spotlight: Zahra Jahedi
We kicked off our intern program earlier this year and are pleased to welcome our very first OPNFV interns! They work directly with the community and receive hands-on development experience…
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What is Colorado 3.0?
By Tapio Tallgren We’ve just issued the latest iteration of the OPNFV platform, OPNFV Colorado 3.0. While the initial Colorado 1.0 release was a major milestone, the work on Colorado…
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How OpenStack + OPNFV Can Help Keep Mobile Calls Connected
Mark Collier, COO of the OpenStack Foundation, creating a network outage during a keynote demo at the OpenStack Summit in Barcelona. This blog post first appeared on Linux.com and is…
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OPNFV Intern Spotlight: Daniel Tudares
We kicked off our intern program earlier this year and are pleased to welcome our very first OPNFV interns! They work directly with the community and receive hands-on development experience…
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Interoperability Testing at the OPNFV Plugfest: Deployment, Network Integration and VNF Applications
By Lincoln Lavoie, senior engineer, Broadband Technologies, University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) This post first published on the UNH-IOL blog We are looking forward to hosting the OPNFV…
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Making OPNFV Work
By Tapio Tallgren, new OPNFV Technical Steering Committee (TSC) Chair I would like to introduce myself to those in OPNFV community who don’t yet know me and share some thoughts…
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Skinned Knees and Strong Wills: Celebrating Two Years as a Project
This month marks our two-year anniversary as a project. In the grand scheme of things, two years is not very long, but I am constantly amazed at how far the…
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OPNFV’s Colorado Release: Breaking Barriers
OPNFV formed almost two years ago with the intention of developing carrier networking needs for virtualization as a collaborative activity across a variety of open source communities. This week, the…
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Security Working Group Shares How OPNFV Earned a CII Best Practices Badge
This article was first published on Linux.com Security is always a hot-button issue, and one the folks at the OPNFV project take seriously. In fact, the project -- an integrated open…
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OPNFV Security in Focus
By Luke Hinds, principal software engineer, NFV Partner Engineering in the Office of Technology at Red Hat NFV Security has recently become a hot topic and was a key theme discussed…
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OPNFV Board of Directors Welcomes new Silver Directors: John Zannos of Canonical and Bob Monkman of ARM
We are lucky to have a board of directors who are engaged and committed to helping OPNFV be successful. Our board is comprised of industry leaders whose purpose is to…
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OPNFV Summit Preview: Q&A with John Healy of Intel
John Healy, General Manager, Software Defined Networking Division, Datacenter Solutions Group at Intel, will deliver a keynote at the Berlin OPNFV Summit. Prior to the event, we engaged with John…
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OPNFV’s Inaugural Plugfest Hosted by CableLabs
OPNFV’s first Plugfest was held at CableLabs’ facility in Louisville, CO. This event, which focused on deployment and integration of OPNFV as well as Virtual Network Function (VNF) applications, was…
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OPNFV Summit Preview: Q&A with Susan James of Ericsson
Susan James, head of Product Line NFV Infrastructure, Business Unit Cloud & IP, Ericsson, will deliver a keynote at the OPNFV Summit titled “Making OPNFV the Platform for Industry Growth”…
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OPNFV Brahmaputra 3.0 Brings Added Enhancements to Recent Platform Release
When we released OPNFV Brahmaputra almost two months ago, we committed to delivering the entire set of deployment scenarios incrementally, with additional scenarios becoming available in a set of monthly…
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OPNFV Developer Spotlight: Ildikó Váncsa
The OPNFV community is comprised of a diverse set of active developers who are passionate about transforming the industry through open source NFV. This new blog series highlights the people…
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Inaugural OPNFV Plugfest Advances Integrated Testing
OPNFV will host the first OPNFV Plugfest, May 9-13, at our CableLabs campus in Louisville, CO, and I couldn’t be more excited. This is where some of the initial conversations…
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Navigating the Brahmaputra
Facebook Twitter Google+ Share Today, we celebrate the second OPNFV platform release: Brahmaputra. I am so proud of the entire OPNFV community who have come together to create this incredibly…
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OPNFV Developer Spotlight: Bin Hu
The OPNFV community is comprised of a diverse set of active developers who are passionate about transforming the industry through open source NFV. This new blog series highlights the people…
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New White Paper Explores OpenStack and OPNFV Integration
NFV is picking up steam as more telecom and enterprise network operators recognize the scalability and flexibility of controlling their network functions via open source software and commercial off-the-shelf hardware.…
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OPNFV Developer Spotlight: Maryam Tahhan
The OPNFV community is comprised of a diverse set of active developers who are passionate about transforming the industry through open source NFV. This new blog series highlights the people…
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Swimming in the Brahmaputra: What’s Ahead for the Next OPNFV Release
The OPNFV community is hard at work on our second release, Brahmaputra, planned for February 2016. We’ve just hit Milestone D, which means the release is API and feature-complete! As…
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OPNFV Board Removes Scope Constraints
OPNFV was started with the broad goal to create an open source, carrier grade platform for NFV and to accelerate the adoption of NFV products and services. In just one…
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Survey Says: OPNFV Poised to Help Accelerate Adoption of Open NFV
Having just hit the one-year mark, we wanted to get a sense of how we’re doing from perspective of the telecom industry. So we commissioned Heavy Reading to conduct a…
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OPNFV – Ready, Set….Go!
Thank you for your interest in the OPNFV Community! To make getting started with the community a smooth process, this post will guide you through the basics of our resources,…
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OPNFV Developer Spotlight: Peter Lee
The OPNFV community is comprised of a diverse set of active developers who are passionate about transforming the industry through open source NFV. This new blog series highlights the people…
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A View from the Board: OPNFV at One Year, Part 2
OPNFV has made great progress since we started the organization in September 2014. As a community, the OPNFV project represents the first time open software developers, architects and standards professionals…
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A View From the Board: OPNFV at One Year, Part 1
This month marks the end of the third year of the engagement of the telecom industry with this thing we call Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). Three years ago when a…
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OPNFV Arno SR1 is Here
While much of the OPNFV community is engaged on the next milestone release, Brahmaputra, a team of developers has been hard at work making iterative updates and improvements to our first…
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Inaugural OPNFV Summit Schedule Announced, Sessions Span Technical and Business Tracks
We are gearing up for our inaugural OPNFV Summit happening November 9-12 in Burlingame, CA. After reviewing an astounding 131 submissions, we are pleased to announced our final agenda that…
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NFV Community Comes Together to Collaborate on the Future of the Industry
Marc Cohn, OpenDaylight board director and SVP of marketing for ClearPath Networks, just posted a great summary of the most recent ETSI NFV ISG meeting to SDxCentral, entitled NFV Insider…
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OPNFV Brahmaputra Begins to Emerge at OpenDaylight Summit
Our community is transitioning from the Arno release—where we constrained release activities to include only five projects—to our Brahmaputra release, where we may have more than thirty projects participating! This…
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Test-Bed Infrastructure Helps Community Development of OPNFV
Last November, we started a project—codenamed ‘Pharos’—to develop a test-bed framework for creating a federated NFV test capability, hosted by OPNFV member companies from across the community. Nine months later,…
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How OPNFV and ETSI NFV are Advancing NFV Adoption
ETSI was the birthplace of the NFV concept in 2012, and OPNFV was launched just two years later with many of the same members to help bring NFV from specs…
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OPNFV’s First Milestone: A Toe-dip in the River
Eight months ago OPNFV began uniting the networking industry around a mission to bring NFV from specification to implementation. Because the challenges facing us as an industry around NFV are…
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Highlights: OPNFV Mini Summit at NFV World Congress
It was great to be part of the inaugural NFV World Congress last week in San Jose. On Tuesday, we hosted an OPNFV mini-summit that was standing room only. After…
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OPNFV Bridging Open Source Communities and Telcos
It has been a whirlwind two months since I joined OPNFV in January. I recently spent three weeks on the road getting to know our community and seeing OPNFV in…
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OPNFV Community Comes Together to Define its First Software Release
Open source communities thrive on healthy arguments and collaboration to develop code that can solve real world problems. In the past few weeks the OPNFV community had two such face-to-face…
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Open Collaboration is Paving the Path for NFV
I am thrilled to be joining OPNFV as its Director of NFV working directly with those who are committed to advancing open source NFV for all. I am excited about…
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OPNFV – Our First 90 Days
In 2014, the widespread interest in creating a platform for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) was evident across all sectors. NFV is moving out of the labs and into the field.…
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Industry Leaders Talk Open Source NFV at World Congress
With 1,300 attendees--nearly double from last year--SDN OpenFlow & World Congress in Dusseldorf was a melting pot of ideas that reflected the growing interest and demand for NFV. It was…
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We Launched, Now What?
Highlights from OPNFV’s first week When the OPNFV Project launched last week there was a lot of excitement surrounding the news with carriers and vendors alike showing tremendous support. Significant…
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Open Source Drives Innovation in Another Multi-Billion Dollar Market: World’s Largest Carriers, Vendors to Bring Virtualization
Guest post from Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, Linux Foundation The Linux Foundation today is announcing a new Collaborative Project, Open Platform for NFV, or OPNFV. It involves nearly 40 companies…
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