Forbes: The Linux Foundation Is Changing The Fabric Of Networking
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…
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Fierce Telecom: Special Report—How service providers are using containers and Kubernetes
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…
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SDxCentral: OPNFV’s 6th Release Brings Testing Capabilities That Orange Is Already Using
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…
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TelecomTV: Testing collaboration between OPNFV and ETSI NFV
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…
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TelecomPaper: ETSI, OPNFV announce co-located testing, interoperability events
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…
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FierceTelecom: LF Networking, OCP collaborate on creating open source SDN, NFV software stacks
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…
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SDxCentral: OCP and Linux Foundation Bring Hardware Together with Software
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,…
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FierceTelecom: OPNFV verification program establishes testing, deployment methods to simplify NFV adoption
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…
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Light Reading: OPNFV Unveils Vendor Verification Program
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…
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SDxCentral: OPNFV Certifies NFV Infrastructure Via Verification Program
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…
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RCR Wireless: OPNFV Verified Program aims to ease NFV adoption
The OPNFV Project recently announced the OPNFV Verified Program (OVP) in an effort to ease the adoption of commercial network functions virtualization (NFV) products. The purpose of the program, according…
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OPNFV Euphrates release addresses open-source NFV testing, interoperability
OPNFV has released OPNFV Euphrates, the project’s fifth platform release, focused on enabling service providers to accelerate network functions virtualization (NFV) transformation via open-source NFV. A key element of the…
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OPNFV Supports Containerized OpenStack and Kubernetes
The OPNFV Project today announced availability of its fifth platform release — Euphrates. It’s the first release that delivers container integration and Kubernetes support. It gives the ability to deploy…
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OPNFV’s Euphrates Sails Toward Cloud-Native Shores
Open source group OPNFV is taking a big step forward in the cloud-native direction with its latest release, Euphrates, announced today at the Open Network Summit Europe event in Prague.…
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Cross-community collaboration: strengthening ties with OPNFV
Collaboration is crucial in the land of open source, and with the rapid growth of projects and communities, cross-community activities are more important than ever. As an example of OpenStack’s…
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What are the key enablers for the success of commercial NFV deployment? How does OPNFV/Open Source help facilitate that? – Part 1
Panel Discussion Depending on whom you talk to there are many enablers for CSP success in NFV deployment – interoperability, orchestration, dev ops, back office agility, the list goes on.…
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China Is Driving To 5G And IoT Through Global Collaboration
Telecoms and cloud service providers are gearing up for two of the largest functional changes in decades: The Internet of Things (IoT) which is happening now and 5G which is…
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Enea and ARM Help Create a Desktop OPNFV Lab
Four vendors collaborated to create a miniature OPNFV developer’s lab in a box. The Swedish software vendor Enea worked with ARM, Marvell, and PicoCluster to create the NFV PicoPod. The…
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OPNFV Summit Comes at Critical Time
The Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV) holds its annual summit in Beijing next week, and as this particular open source effort moves closer to commercial deployment, both vendors and other…
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Service Providers’ Confidence in Open NFV is Growing, Survey Finds
NFV adoption may still be in its relatively early stage, but a new joint report from OPNFV and Heavy Reading says that service provider confidence around open NFV is growing.…
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Technologies like NFV put Telecom Industry at the forefront of Digital Transformation
The OPNFV summit 2017 saw an august gathering of developers, end-users and various communities who work towards the emerging Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) technologies. Read more at Daily Host News
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NFV: Keeping Hope Alive with the OPNFV
For the most part, NFV has been like a once-in-a-generation draft pick in sports: untapped potential, game-changing abilities and the promise of a bright future. But unlike Bryce Harper or…
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OPNFV is Accelerating Open Source NFV Adoption
The OPNFV Project, a carrier-grade, integrated, open source platform intended to accelerate the introduction of new products and services using Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), has announced at the OPNFV Summit…
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What Carriers Want From OPNFV
Carriers have a variety of hopes for OPNFV, but interoperability and integration top the list, according to a Heavy Reading survey presented today at the OPNFV Summit in Beijing. Read…
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OPNFV issues fourth release, Danube
The OPNFV Project has announced the availability of OPNFV Danube, the project’s fourth platform release, representing an evolutionary turning point for OPNFV. OPNFV Daube introduces new architectural components and improvements…
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OPNFV Crosses Into MANO With Danube
The OPNFV Project took a big step up its evolutionary ladder with this week's release of Danube, which now supports Management and Orchestration (MANO) across end-to-end open networking stacks. Read…
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Status Report for OPNFV – the Blue Danube Release
Heather Kirksey provides a status update on OPNFV as the project makes its fourth major release -- Danube. See the video from Converge! Network Digest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pLlP6KBgDc
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OPNFV unveils Danube release to bolster open source NFV adoption
The Linux Foundation’s Open Platform for NFV project launched its fourth platform release, dubbed “Danube,” which the organization said provides key architectural components and improvements designed to foster the adoption…
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The OPNFV Garage: Making Open Networking Work Together
OPNFV is a project within the Linux Foundation that creates reference designs and then tests and reports on the integration of disparate open-source networking projects. The OPNFV announced its latest…
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OPNFV issues its fourth release, Danube
The OPNFV Project announced the availability of its fourth platform release, OPNFV Danube, representing an evolutionary turning point for OPNFV. The release, named after Europe's second-largest river, brings together full next-generation networking…
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OPNFV’s Danube Dubbed ‘Milestone’ Release
OPNFV was launched in 2014 to become the "glue" that knit together the diverse piece parts needed for network functions virtualization to work. With its Danube release, the open source…
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Why Open Source is Like a Team Sport
Heather Kirksey likes to call them as she sees them. As director for Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV) — a role she alternatively describes as coach, nerd matchmaker and diplomat…
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Tying together the many open source projects in networking
The Open Platform for Network Functions Virtualization (OPNFV) is driven more by iterative code releases than by heavyweight up-front standardization efforts. Read more at opensource.com.
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OPNFV Tests its Software on OCP Hardware
LAKE TAHOE, California — The OPNFV open source group has released the report for its second plugfest, conducted in December. The plugfest was notable for testing OPNFV software on Open…
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OPNFV’s Second Plugfest Tackles OCP & Open-O Integration
OPNFV made progress at its second Plugfest in advancing interoperability with other open source platforms, notably integration of the OPNFV platform with both the Open Compute Project and Open Orchestrator…
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OPNFV Nearing Commercial Deployment
The somewhat long-awaited report on OPNFV's December Plugfest emerged this morning, revealing no major surprises but taking some steps forward on integration with other open source projects, namely the Open…
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OPNFV set to release fourth NFV platform under ‘Danube’ moniker
The Linux Foundation’s Open Platform for NFV project is looking to unveil a new platform release over the next two months, which will be the fourth platform targeting open source…
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Q&A with Arpit Joshipura, Head of Networking for The Linux Foundation
Arpit Joshipura became the Linux Foundation’s new general manager for networking and orchestration in December 2016. He’s tasked with a pretty tall order. He needs to harmonize all the different…
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Why Open Source is Rising Up the Networking Stack in 2017
With 2016 behind us, we can reflect on a landmark year where open source migrated up the stack. As a result a new breed of open service orchestration projects were…
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What To Expect From Networking In 2017
Each year we try to lay out what businesses should expect in the upcoming year in the networking market. This year we expect to see a lot of changes as…
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Mentors Among Us: 65 Inspiring Women in Comms
It's no secret that females are underrepresented in the comms, and larger technology, industry. According to Census Bureau data, women only make up about one fourth, or 26.5%, of tech…
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Linux Foundation adds an open source networking specialist to the team
Arpit Joshipura a veteran tech executive who has worked at Dell, Ericsson and Nortel In recognition of the increasingly central role open source technology has played for the networking sector,…
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Open Source NFV Project to Host 2017 Summit in Beijing
The OPNFV Project, a carrier-grade, integrated, open source platform intended to accelerate the introduction of new products and services using Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), today announced the 2017 OPNFV Summit will…
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Dialogic Tests Its Virtual Network Functions with OPNFV Code
Dialogic, a company that provides communications applications, today rolled out a cloud and network functions virtualization (NFV) test bed. Its NFV proving ground is based on the OPNFV code for a virtualized infrastructure manager (VIM). Dialogic is a member…
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OPNFV Colorado Increases Functionality, Improves Collaboration
The number of significant open source projects related to networking, automation, and orchestration likely number in the dozens. The reasons for this plethora of projects range from politics to pragmatism,…
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OPNFV Demonstrates How to Cut the Cord from Proprietary Hardware Designs
There are few things more frustrating than a dropped call. At the keynote during OpenStack Barcelona 2016 conference, the folks behind the Open Platform for Network Functions Virtualization Project (OPNFV) demonstrated, in a most…
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RCR Wireless: OPNFV survey shows nearly all telecom operators on board with NFV
A recent survey released by the Linux Foundation’s Open Platform for NFV Project, found an increasingly small percentage of telecom operators have not yet planned for network functions virtualization. Read…
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ITProPortal: OPNFV important to NFV success, survey says
Just 21 months in, OPNFV will deliver on its promise of accelerating NFV. This is what pretty much all (99 per cent) telecommunications operators polled by Heavy Reading think. Read more at…
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Silicon ES: OPNFV is revealed as “essential” industry platform for Teleco
Read the translated article at Silicon ES.
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Telecom TV: Hewlett Packard Enterprise to participate in OPNFV Pharos community test labs project
At the OPNFV event in Berlin this week, Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced that it will participate in the Linux Foundation’s OPNFV Pharos Project via its own OpenNFV Labs. HPE…
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SDxCentral: CENGN Pharos Lab Puts Canada on OPNFV Map
CENGN, Canada’s Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks (NGN), launched an OPNFV Pharos community test lab at its Ottawa headquarters. CENGN is a member of OPNFV, the open source platform for network functions virtualization (NFV) formed under…
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