This week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check looks at some top headlines, including an AT&T and Amdocs deal, and speaks with Glue Networks on automation
For our featured interview this week we spoke with Jeff Gray, CEO at Glue Networks, to discuss the use of automation in improving reliability and simplifying network deployments.
But first, let’s take a look at some of the top headlines from across the space over the past week.
AT&T signed a deal with Amdocs to be the integrator for telecommunications companies and cloud developers looking to take advantage of AT&T’s ECOMP platform in building out software-centric network services.
The agreement calls for Amdocs to help companied interested in the ECOMP platform deploy the open source software into their own networks, as well as help AT&T market the platform globally.
Both firms said they would work to bolster the platform through standardization and contributions to the open source community. AT&T recently said it was moving the ECOMP platform to the open source community, with plans to work with the Linux Foundation on the structure of the open source release.
AT&T unveiled the ECOMP initiative earlier this year, which it said was designed to automate network services and infrastructure running in a cloud environment.
Also this week, the ONOS project’s CORD platform continues to gain momentum, with the Open Networking Lab and the Linux Foundation spinning off the CORD initiative as an independent open source project.
The CORD initiative was formed in early 2015 with a focus on accelerating the adoption of open source SDN and NFV solutions for service providers using open source platforms like ONOS, OpenStack, Docker and XOS.
The initiative this week also gained new partners with Google, Radisys and Samsung all joining the program. Google is jumping in with both feet, hosting the first CORD Summit this week at its Tech Corner Campus in California.
The initiative also includes members AT&T, Verizon, China Unicom, NTT Communications and SK Telecom, as well as vendors like Ciena, Cisco, Fujitsu, Intel, NEC and Nokia.
For more on the CORD topic, please check out a couple of our previous NFV/SDN Reality Check shows where we spoke with Tech Mahindra and Radisys on the topic.
As mentioned, for our featured interview we spoke with Jeff Gray, CEO at Glue Networks, to discuss the use of automation to improve reliability and simplify network deployments.
Let’s take a look at that interview now.
Thanks for joining us on this week’s show, and make sure to check us out again next week when we are scheduled to speak with Genband to discuss NFV development and integration challenges for vendors.
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