Huawei NFV lab will focus on multivendor interoperability
Huawei recently opened a new lab in Xi’an, China, focused on developing multivendor integration verification capabilities for network function virtualization. The lab is said to be an expansion of Huawei’s move to work with customers, partners and organizations to help develop the NFV ecosystem.
Partners attending the launch of the new lab included China Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, VMware, Red Hat, Canonical and the Linux Foundation.
Huawei cited a number of characteristics of user behavior tied to the growth of cloud technology that is leading to greater reliance on virtualization, including demand for real-time access to information, the growth of social platforms and increased requests for customer-controlled scalability. These are steering telecom operators toward virtualized platforms based on NFV and software-defined networking.
However, the vendor community is being challenged to meet telecom operator demands for open platforms that can operate in a multivendor environment. Huawei said the new lab, in addition to its previously launched SoftCom network architecture, furthers its work in attempting to meet this challenge as it plans to build an NFV big data analysis platform to support rollout plans.
Huawei said its initial phase of work will be with China Mobile, VMware and Red Hat, but claims it is currently working with 20 operators and open-source organizations like the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, OpenStack, OpenDaylight and Open Platform for NFV. Huawei was also a founding member of the recently launched Open Network Operating System, which was unveiled late last year by the Open Network Lab as an open-source SDN platform.
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