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ETSI Drives NFV Interoperability with First Plugtests Event

ETSI organized the first Network end-to-end capabilities including The list of participants at this event
Functions Virtualization (NFV) management of descriptors and includes: A10 Networks, ADVA Optical
interoperability Plugtests® event software images, as well as life cycle Networking, Anritsu A/S, Canonical USA
from 23 January to 3 February 2017. management of network services and Inc., Cisco Systems, EANTC, Ericsson, F5
This event was hosted by 5TONIC virtual network functions. Networks, Fortinet, Fraunhofer FOKUS,
Laboratory with the technical support Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Huawei,
of Telefonica and took place in The test plan development has been Intel, Italtel, Ixia, Keynetic Technologies,
Leganes, Madrid, Spain. This important driven by ETSI’s Center for Testing Lenovo, Mahindra Comviva, Netrounds,
event came hot on the heels of the and Interoperability, building on Openet, Palo Alto Networks, Radware,
publication of the ETSI NFV Release 2 the methodology defined by the Red Hat, RIFT.io, Sandvine, Sonus
specifications and the announcement ETSI NFV testing working group. The Networks, Spirent, University of the
of ETSI Open Source MANO Release overall results and lessons learnt Basque Country (UPV/EHU), VMware
ONE in October 2016. will be fed back to ETSI NFV Industry and Wind River.
Specification Group.
This first NFV Plugtests event was
ambitious. A pre-testing and remote Over 40 commercial and open source
integration phase was already implementations were tested for
launched in November 2016. 29 interoperability, including 20 virtual
remote labs were connected to the network functions, 10 management
ETSI Plugtests network to verify and orchestration solutions and 10
interconnection between the different NFV platforms. Over 140 people have
Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs), prepared this two week event, forming
Management and Orchestration an engaged and diverse community.
(MANO) solutions and NFV platforms Key NFV Open Source projects, ETSI
participating in the Plugtests. During OSM, Open Baton, OPEN-O and
the two-week intense testing OPNFV participated. This first ETSI NFV
phase, interoperability tests focused Plugtests was a unique opportunity to
on validating ETSI NFV Release 2 stimulate synergy and alignment across
the NFV ecosystem.

ETSI Brings Virtualization of Telecommunication Networks

Closer with Announcement of NFV Release 2

NFV Architectural Framework Gains Further Traction
as Greater Breadth of Key Parameters are Determined
On 27 September 2016 ETSI announced as the management of virtualized
the availability of the NFV Release 2 resources, lifecycle management of "ETSI NFV Architectural
specifications, delivering requirements, both network services and virtualized Framework will be the
interfaces and information models network functions, network service foundation upon which
for Network Functions Virtualization fault/performance management, future virtualization of the
(NFV). This underlines the significant virtualized resource capacity network is established"
progress made in the development and management, etc.
future utilization of NFV technology.
Undertaken by the ETSI Industry “This represents another major step “By drawing upon the combined merits
Specification Group on NFV (ETSI towards our objective of defining a of a well-defined standards structure
ISG NFV) now covering an expansive comprehensive set of specifications and the support of the open source
range of core activities, the successful that will facilitate the deployment of community, we have been able to
completion of the specifications from NFV throughout the telecommunication accelerate the development process
the Release 2 roadmap will move the industry, with significant benefits and ensure widespread
telecommunication sector closer to the being subsequently derived in many interoperability,” Lopez continues.
goal of a more agile, flexible and cost- interrelated sectors,” states Telefonica’s “I am therefore confident that the
effective network infrastructure. Diego Lopez, the newly appointed ETSI NFV Architectural Framework
Chairman of ETSI NFV ISG. “Through will be the foundation upon which
Building on the ETSI ISG NFV the collaborative efforts of all parties future virtualization of the network is
documentation that was published in involved in the ETSI NFV ISG, we have established - enabling cost effective
late 2014, NFV Release 2 incorporates been able to identify and define the allocation of resources and the rapid
11 new group specifications, in addition required capabilities, following a addition of new services, while still
to the many NFV specifications already practical approach that leverages ensuring the highest degrees of security
published. These detail the various proofs of concept to explore and and reliability, as well as painless and
requirements, interface descriptions demonstrate what was proposed. The seamless integration with existing
and information models enabling combination of wide consensus and infrastructure.”
interoperability of solutions based on experimental evidence has led to NFV
the ETSI NFV Architectural Framework. being recognized as a completely viable
Release 2 outlines the necessary and highly valuable technology. This
functional requirements in relation to has allowed us to make progresses at a
a wide set of functional areas, such fast pace.”

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