New project aims to ease adoption of NFV
ZTE entered into a collaboration with China Mobile to promote a management and orchestration interoperability test across key industry vendors, with a goal of easing network functions virtualization adoption by verifying interoperability of China Mobile’s NFV standard NFVO-VNFM interface and NFVO-VIM interface. The move is said to allow the Chinese telco to fully realize uniform management of physical resources, virtual resources and virtual network elements.
ZTE said it will work with other vendors and take a lead position in China Mobile’s MANO interoperability test and vendor verification program. The test results are said to fully prove interoperability of NFVO-VNFM and NFVO-VIM interfaces, which meets existing NFV system requirements and supports automatic NE deployment, flexible scale-in/out, policy delivering, resources application and management, and lays a foundation for China Mobile to deploy MANO across different vendors.
“ZTE has been dedicated to wide-ranging research and innovation around network virtualization and actively develops wide cooperation with industry vendors and operators in an effort to drive industry-wide maturity and large-scale development,” said Liu Jianhua, CEO of ZTE core network products.
In addition, ZTE’s VManager product recently completed interworking test and the SW&HW decoupling test with RedHat, VMware and Hewlett-Packard MANO solution products, which it said boosts the enablement of cloud for operators.
SK Telecom to launch 500 Mbps LTE-A service in June
In other APAC news, SK Telecom said it plans to launch a new LTE-Advanced service in June, The Korea Times reported. The service, dubbed LTE-A Pro, is said to support network speeds up to 500 megabits per second. SK Telecom said it will initially deploy the service in metropolitan areas during 2018, with plans to expand coverage to 90% of the country by the end of 2019.
Earlier this month, SK Telecom acquired 60 megahertz of spectrum in the 2.6 GHz spectrum band.
“Through this month’s frequency auction, we have established a basis to provide the nation’s only five-band carrier aggregation service,” said Choi Seung-won, SVP for SK Telecom’s infrastructure strategy division.
The South Korean telco also announced plans to launch 1 gigabit-per-second LTE services by 2019.
