ETSI NFV ISG said meeting was first to bring together standards, open source community
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute recently concluded an industry workshop designed to align cloud- and network- centric initiatives behind the move towards the deployment of network functions virtualization through automation.
The event, hosted by CableLabs in Louisville, Colorado, was the work of ETSI’s Industry Specification Group for NFV and included attendance from standards development organizations and the open source community. ETSI claimed the meeting was the first attended by “key standards organizations and open source communities” to work on alignment of NFV activities. Participants included the 3rd Generation Partnership Project, Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions, Broadband Forum, International Telecommunications Union, Open Cloud Connect, Open Networking Forum, OpenDaylight, Open Platform for NFV and the TM Forum.
ETSI said the workshop resulted in a collaboration plan to “achieve meaningful progress in addressing the challenges and opportunities identified in the workshop by the end of 2016.” Participating organizations agreed to continue their work with the intent to keep in mind collaboration milestones and regular conference calls to monitor progress “and when necessary another workshop will be convened to progress alignment.”
“ETSI NFV ISG is pleased to foster increased collaboration among key industry bodies to enable increased automation and reduced operational costs, which service providers look for when initiating work on NFV,” said Steven Wright, chair of the ETSI NFV ISG and a representative from AT&T.
The ETSI NFV ISG last October released three new specifications targeting security and reliability for NFV deployments. ETSI said the new specifications provide guidance on lawful interception implementation in an NFV environment, which would coordinate with regulatory authorities that require telecom operators provide lawful interception capabilities.
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