Open source continues to gain momentum and is said to remain central to ongoing development and deployment of NFV and SDN for telecommunication operators
The open source community remains active in bolstering support for the telecommunication market’s move towards network virtualization platforms using software-defined networking and network functions virtualization.
In the past month alone, new platform iterations from the Open Platform for NFV project with its Colorado release; fellow Linux Foundation organization OpenDaylight with its Boron SDN platform; and the Open Networking Laboratory’s Open Network Operating System Project with its SDN-focused Hummingbird platform.
In addition, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute rolled out its Open Source MANO initiative in a move to continue feeding software standards into the management and orchestration community.
For our featured interview this week, we spoke with Tom Nadeau, distinguished engineer and chief architect of open source software at Brocade, where he discussed the ongoing development and deployment of NFV platforms by telecom operators and the importance of ongoing open source work in evolving NFV and SDN platforms.
Nadeau also recently released a book with co-author Ken Gary entitled simply enough “Network Function Virtualization” that provides an architectural overview of the issues surrounding the large levels of data storage and transmission requirements and connected benefits of NFV for the enterprise.
Thanks for watching this week’s show and make sure to check out our next show when we speak with Level 3 to gain some insight into the interaction between service providers and vendors on deploying solutions in support of SDN platforms.
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