Software is becoming an increasingly important part of telecommunication networks and deployments as both wired and wireless carriers look to add functionality to operations while increasing simplicity and reducing costs. RCR Wireless News is keeping an eye on recent developments through its weekly “Software” wrap up.
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute released documents relating to the completion of “phase one” work on establishing a framework for network function virtualization technology.
The latest NFV documents include an infrastructure overview; an updated architectural framework; descriptions of the compute, hypervisor and network domains of the infrastructure; management and orchestration; security and trust; and resilience and service quality metrics. The documents build on the initial phase one work that was released in late 2013.
ETSI announced last month that its NFV plans had entered “phase two” following the completion of an organization meeting in Arizona. Phase two work is set to include growing interoperability across the NFV ecosystem; specifying reference points and requirements that were defined in phase one; growing industry engagement to ensure that its NFV requirements are met; and clarifying how NFV intersects with other standards, including software-defined networking and open-source initiatives.
• NetCracker Technology reported that cable-based telecom provider RCN implemented NetCracker’s Revenue Management solution to support more diverse rating scenarios in its business-to-business operations. The deployment was part of an upgrade to RCN’s legacy NetCracker platform.
RCN provides high-speed Internet, digital television, telephone and enterprise-focused communication services to a number of large markets along the East Coast and Midwest, including New York, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. Financial terms of the deal were not released.
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