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Deutsche Telekom (DT) joins the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) as a PartnerMENLO PARK, Calif., July 20, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) announced today that Deutsche Telekom (DT), Europe's leading telecom operator, has joined the organization as a full Partner Member. Partner membership demonstrates the highest tier of support and investment in the ONF. As an operator-led consortium, each operator taking a partnership position with the ONF represents the apex of endorsement and the most significant way an operator can help drive the ONF's mission and impact. The ONF is the recognized leader taking innovative approaches to blending Cloud, SDN and NFV technologies to build next-generation solutions for operators leveraging network disaggregation, white box commoditized hardware and open source software. These solutions come packaged as pre-integrated distributions that are transforming the economics of building complex operator networks, driving both cost savings while enabling new innovative end-user services. Solutions are available for modernizing the most significant segments of operator networks, including:
It is the ONF's 200+ members that make possible the breadth of solutions now available. The ONF's Open Innovation Pipeline makes it easy for vendors to work with the ONF to identify operator use cases, introduce their unique contributions into solutions, and take those solutions into operator trials. In this way vendors benefit by identifying new markets, leveraging the work of the broader community to reduce R&D costs, and speeding time to market by riding the wave of operator consumption of ONF solutions.
DT is joining AT&T, China Unicom, Comcast, Google, NTT Communications and Verizon as the leading operators guiding the ONF in its mission to drive innovation in operator networks while transforming business models across the industry. These seven operators provide steering, guidance and investment to lead the consortium. "We are thrilled to add a major global European operator as a top-level ONF partner," said Guru Parulkar, executive director of ONF and Stanford Platform Lab. "The addition of Deutsche Telekom complements our operator leadership with a valued European perspective, endorsing our vision and providing a notable indicator of our growing impact worldwide. We are deeply appreciative of the commitment DT is making to the ONF, and conversely we are committed to ensuring DT's success with its ambitious plans for CORD and ONOS." Further Growth in Operator Leadership About ONF About Deutsche Telekom CONTACT:
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