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Industry partners commit to NFV interoperability testing initiative
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Optical communications giants Cisco, Ericsson, Huawei and Nokia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to create the Network Functions Virtualization Interoperability Testing Initiative (NFV-ITI), which is designed to help communication service providers to address the challenges related to NFV deployment and Cloud transformation within multi-vendor network environments. The partners stated, “deployment and integration of virtual network functions within today’s multi-vendor environments can introduce new interoperability challenges. To address these challenges, NFV-ITI members will cooperatively support the interoperability of NFV elements in specific customer situations to accelerate the commercial implementations, and to reduce the time-to- market for new applications and services.” All existing NFV interoperability related
testing activities have been triggered by different needs of the industry, including the European Telecommunications Standards Institute NFV Testing WG, OPNFV testing projects, Network Vendor Interoperability Testing, and the New IP Agency interoperability testing. Complementing all the existing NFV interoperability testing activities in the industry, NFV-ITI will focus on testing interoperability configurations of commercial NFV solutions actually used in the communication service providers’ networks. It will recommend generic principles, including interoperability test cases, test criteria, processes, methods, guidelines, templates, and testing tools, and will also apply best practices from all existing interoperability testing activities in the industry, such as the NVIOT forum efforts. NFV-ITI will be well aligned with the ETSI NFV Industry Specification Group and the OPNFV project.
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New silicon photonics player Elenion announces itself
leveraging silicon photonics but we have other capabilities.” These areas of expertise include indium phosphide, radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs), packaging, and driver and control electronics circuit design. The RFIC expertise suggests the company plans to address the mobility market The company is targeting optical module makers, systems vendors and cloud operators and will detail its products prior to OFC 2017.
Elenion Technologies, a company that is already shipping silicon photonics- based optical engines, has announced itself. Elenion is owned by Marlin Equity Partners, the investment firm that also owns systems vendor, Coriant, and has been active for over two years. “We are now introducing ourselves as we are getting enough requests that it seemed the appropriate time,” said Larry Schwerin, Elenion’s CEO. “We are developing a platform
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