The OpenDaylight Project announced the availability of 14 internships as part of its 2015 Internship Program. The offer is said to provide “real-world development experience” targeting the software-defined networking and network function virtualization fields, which OpenDaylight noted had more than 100 job openings at companies including AT&T and Verizon Communications.
As part of the internship program, participants are set to work directly with code and established developers in providing direction for open platform-based work on SDN and NFV. Projects are set to include SDN proof-of-concepts, XMPP and AMQP interfaces to OpenDaylight, or on self-submitted projects.
Nine of the internships are being offered through OpenDaylight and are targeted at university students, while the other five are available through the FOSS Outreachy program.
In other telecom software news:
• Alcatel-Lucent’s Nuage Networks division reported that China Telecom’s cloud computing branch selected its SDN platform to support public cloud services in China.
The deal is said to involve Nuage’s virtualized services platform as well as provide support for network security requirements targeting distributed denial of service attacks.
• Brocade said it plans to acquire Riverbed Technology’s RVBD SteelApp product line in a move to expand its software portfolio targeting data center service provider markets.
Riverbed’s SteelApp line consists of virtual application delivery controllers designed to control traffic to and from applications for delivery in a cloud or data center environment. Brocade said the product line meshes with its NFV strategy and will become part of its software business unit.
Financial terms of the all-cash deal were not released.
Brocade this week also announced updates to its VCS fabric portfolio that it said is designed to improve IT agility and help customers migrate to IP-based operations.
The updates include the launch of the VDX 6940 switch designed for dynamic, scale-out data center architectures. Brocade said the product supports zero-touch provisioning capabilities that are claimed to allow for configuration and operation in less than one minute.
The switch is scheduled to be available next month, with a starting price of $28,000.
• Virtualized network solutions provider ConteXtream said it has joined Hewlett-Packard’s OpenNFV Partner Program. HP is a reseller of ConteXtream’s platform, while its SDN fabric is also integrated with the HP NFV software portfolio including NFV Director and HP’s Helion OpenStack.
HP last year announced plans to invest more than $1 billion in software-based solutions that have the potential to replace HP servers and other hardware. The company said the investment will focus on OpenStack, a free, open-source resource that can be used in place of licensed software.
• Overture launched its Ensemble Service Intelligence platform, which is designed to automate orchestration processes across NFV deployments. Overture said the product uses big data technology and analytics to provide “actionable intelligence for service orchestration.”
RCR Wireless News recently spoke with Overture CTO Prayson Pate about the new product as well as challenges facing the NFV space.
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.
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