HPE claims orchestration platform ideal for managing hybrid network architectures
Hewlett Packard Enterprise unveiled its Service Director platform, which the company said is designed to help communication service providers manage their services across hybrid network architectures.
The company, which late last year was spun off from HP’s computer and printer-focused consumer division, said Service Director taps automation to foster interoperability for managing services in network functions virtualization deployments and existing physical environments. The offer builds on HPE’s NFV Director’s management and orchestration capabilities and is set to join the company’s OpenNFV portfolio.
Specific features of the new platform include closed-loop automation of assurance and fulfillment for unified operations; shared information utilizing common data designed to help ensure quality and accuracy; dynamic service descriptors for open and flexible modeling of services to help boost operational agility; and claims of openness allowing the ability to interface with third-party components, “including [software-defined networking] controllers and policy engines, to enable dynamic, highly personalized modes of service delivery
“There is no such thing as a greenfield NFV implementation,” said David Sliter, VP and GM for communications and media solutions at HPE, in a statement. “HPE Service Director is a transformational change in the relationship between assurance and fulfillment, allowing the [operating support system] resource pool to be treated, automated and managed as a service. Our approach provides a more dynamic service model, enabling CSPs to bridge existing physical and new environments and dramatically improve their service agility.”
Orchestration between legacy, physical equipment and virtualized platforms has been a significant barrier for the continued rollout of software platforms by telecom operators using NFV and SDN technology.
“There is a clear industry need for an end-to-end service orchestration capability that spans the NFV MANO and existing OSS silos, is model-driven and ties together fulfillment and assurance,” said Caroline Chappell, principal analyst for NFV and cloud at Heavy Reading. “Such a capability is emerging as key to the accelerated and agile delivery of services across a hybrid physical and virtual network.”
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