Demonstrating NFV is possible: 1st Open Multi-Vendor NFV Showcase
The Open Multi-Vendor NFV Showcase is an effort to increase adoption of horizontal Network Function Virtualization based on its original principles of "leveraging standard IT virtualisation technology to consolidate many network equipment types onto industry standard high volume servers, switches and storage".
Today, open source MANO components like OpenStack and OSM, high-performance NFVI, increasingly relevant standards from ETSI NFV ISG and the evolution of VNFs to cloud-native technologies, can jointly achieve running fully virtualized, multi-vendor Network Services in highly demanding production environments.
The effort, coordinated by Whitestack, supported by ETSI NFV Plugtests Programme, Intel, the OpenStack Foundation and VNF vendors, demonstrates carriers how they can benefit from an horizontal NFV platform, in opposition to monolithic solutions from a single, traditional vendor.
The session will present the results from the first edition.
