OPNFV unveiled its second NFV platform, promising greater interoperability and testing
The Linux Foundation’s Open Platform Network Function Virtualization Project launched its second platform release dubbed Brahmaputra.
OPNFV, which teased the platform late last year, said Brahmaputra is the organization’s “first full experience with a massively parallel simultaneous release process.” The platform is said to tap code from various upstream communities, including OpenStack, OpenDaylight, OpenContrail, Open Network Lab’s Open Network Operating System project and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute.
OPNFV said Brahmaputra includes hardened feature enhancements, such as Layer 3 virtual private network instantiation, and configuration and integration with recent software releases from OpenStack and OpenDaylight; system-level testing and multiple performance testing frameworks and methodologies; infrastructure and testing environment advancements; and deployment and integration enhancements.
“With an entire industry involved in the development of NFV, we’re seeing more collaboration among key stakeholders across the ecosystem,” explained Heather Kirksey, director at OPNFV. “The strides we made in Brahmaputra create a framework for even more developers to come together and make progress in the journey to NFV.”
Brahmaputra, which continues OPNFV’s river-based naming scheme, is said to build off the Arno software platform released last June. Arno was a “develop-focused” release designed to foster the development of NFV, virtual network functions and use case-based testing. The platform offered an initial build of the NFV Infrastructure and Virtual Infrastructure Manager components of ETSI’s NFV architecture, which is seen as the de facto NFV model for telecom deployments.
“Building on the foundation of Arno, the OPNFV community worked tirelessly to integrate and combine components from multiple communities to deliver Brahmaputra, which brings end-to-end feature realization,” said Chris Price, technical steering committee chair for OPNFV and open source manager for SDN, cloud and NFV at Ericsson. “The impact is substantial; we’ve now established methodologies and mechanisms for further cross-project and feature development.”
In support of the new release, OPNFV said it plans to conduct its first “plugfest” on May 9 at CableLabs headquarters in Louisville, Colorado.
OPNFV was formed in late 2014 as a “carrier-grade, integrated, open source reference platform intended to accelerate the introduction of new products and services,” with a focus on working with upstream projects to coordinate continuous integration and testing while filling development gaps. Founding members included the likes of AT&T, China Mobile, Cisco, NTT DoCoMo and Vodafone.
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