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GigaSpaces Kicks Off Cloud Native VNF Partner Program with Versa Networks and Athonet to Speed Carrier Deployment of Cloud-Native Virtualized Networking Services
OPENSTACK SUMMIT - GigaSpaces (News - Alert) today launched a new program to
help telecom service providers and operators of large networks sidestep
the hurdles commonly faced when implementing virtualized network
functions (VNFs) in the cloud-native, scale-out architectures that many
operators are moving to. The program integrates these VNFs with the open
source Cloudify management and orchestration (MANO)
platform widely used by telecoms.
Cloudify presented demos of solutions developed via the Partner Program
at VMworld EU in Barcelona last week, and in booth C4 at OpenStack
Summit Barcelona this week.
The Cloud Native VNF Partner Program adds to Cloudify's record of
integrating with popular VNFs to make them cloud-native. The program
deploys VNFs to a wide selection of popular networking platforms. It
also makes it possible for these VNFs to scale more easily via common
APIs and enables visibility into additional devices in larger
environments, all through a single modeling language-the Topology for
Orchestration and Specification for Cloud Applications, or TOSCA
standard-and dashboard.
Cloudify continues adding VNF
providers to integrate their technologies into this cloud native
ecosystem. Providers of VNFs, or even non-virtualized network functions
that need to be virtualized, can partner with Cloudify via the
Onboarding Program to make their network services cloud-native and ready
for quick deployment by telecom service providers and other large
network operators, who have neither the resources nor interest in doing
this work themselves.
Cloud Native VNF Partners
Versa
Networks and Athonet
are two leading VNF providers working with Cloudify via the program to
deliver cloud-native functionality. They have integrated Cloudify with
multiple VNFs in their portfolio to meetthe diverse use cases that
telecoms require and are supporting Cloudify in the launch of the
Onboarding Program.
Versa is known for its SD-WAN
(Software-Defined Wide-Area Network) and vCPE
(virtual Customer Premises Equipment) technologies, which the company
architected and built for the cloud using Versa Director VNFM technology
and other tools. Cloudify plugs into this technology and provides the
complementary NFVO functionality in the ETSI (News - Alert) (European Technology and
Standards Organization) MANO architecture, providing extensibility and
full-service lifecycle management.
Cloudify has integrated with both the Versa vCPE and SD-WAN VNFs. This
integration enables service providers to configure the VNFs using
Versa's dynamic VNF identity technology and Cloudify, the only open
source, TOSCA-based MANO platform that supports all clouds, containers
and non-virtualized infrastructure.
Cloudify deploys the infrastructure the Versa VNFs will run on, then
contacts Versa Director and provides the identity and configuration for
each VNF. This in turn enables Cloudify to configure external systems
such as routers in a brownfield environment through Netconf/YANG
or other protocols in use. In addition, Cloudify enables integration
with OSS and BSS through a single pane of glass, and provides
post-deployment features such as healing and scaling on these systems,
which were previously impossible to manage in a dynamic environment.
Athonet, a provider of vEPC and vIMS VNF technology, has integrated its
products with Cloudify for simple and rapid deployment on a customer's
private cloud. You can see these capabilities running on VMware's vCloud
Director with Cloudify's Manager.
Working with Athonet and VMware, Cloudify has integrated with Athonet's
suite of VNFs. This makes possible the management and orchestration of
voice services over LTE via the IP Multimedia Subsystem (News - Alert) network.
Specific profiles for control and media planes are enabled by an Evolved
Packet Core, which unifies voice and data on an IP transport. This
partnership demos the orchestration of Athonet's IMS and EPC services
using a simple TOSCA blueprint executed by the Cloudify Orchestrator on
top of VMWare vCloud environment. The solutions runs on commodity Intel
hardware.
Supporting Quotes
"The Onboarding Program's value to VNF providers that are already making
the cloud-native transition is a powerful one," said Nati Shalom,
founder and CTO of GigaSpaces. "By integrating with the TOSCA-compliant
Cloudify or ARIA
projects, VNF providers gain multi-VNF integration and multi-VIM support
as well as full automation for their VNFs, reducing time required to
transition to cloud-native scalability. The Onboarding Program delivers
this in a standardized environment and open community, eliminating the
slow and risky path of going it alone."
"Versa continues to work on behalf of our service provider customers to
maximize the scalability, agility and efficiency of their managed
service offerings," said Mark Weiner (News - Alert), CMO at Versa Networks. "That
includes testing and integrating with the latest management and
orchestration tools and platforms, of which Cloudify provides a
comprehensive offering that ties Versa's broad set of VNFs into a full
NFV architecture through NFVO and MANO."
"Reliably simplifying the path to NFV benefits everyone in this emerging
space," said Gianluca Verin, co-founder and CTO at Athonet. "That's what
we're working on with VMware and the Cloudify team. In fact, we won
'Best of Show' at the Tokyo Interop (News - Alert) event for the virtualized LTE mobile
packet core and VoLTE service, based on vEPC and vIMS VNFs running on
VMware's vCloud Director with Cloudify Manager. The result was
deployment-including scale-out of a second vEPC and vIMS-in less than 10
minutes, which illustrates the benefits of the Onboarding Program."
About GigaSpaces
GigaSpaces Technologies provides software for cloud application
orchestration and scaling of mission-critical applications on cloud
environments. Hundreds of Tier-1 organizations worldwide are leveraging
GigaSpaces technology to enhance IT efficiency and performance, from top
financial firms, e-commerce companies, online gaming providers,
healthcare organizations and telecom carriers. GigaSpaces has offices in
the US, Europe and Asia. More at www.gigaspaces.com
and www.getcloudify.org.
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