ETSI Set to Host Second in its Series
of
NFV Plugtests Events
At Sophia Antipolis, 15-19 January 2018
ETSI has shown continued commitment to driving the progression of Network
Functions Virtualisation (NFV) technology through our efforts to ensure that
widespread interoperability is supported. Following on from the
success of our previous NFV interoperability Plugtests™ gathering, we now announce the dates of the next
event.
This latest NFV
Plugtests event will be held at ETSI, in Sophia Antipolis, France, between 15
and 19 January. Once again the primary objective
will be to provide a valuable opportunity for extensive multi-party
interoperability testing to be carried out. Representatives from vendors and several open source communities will
be able to evaluate the level of interoperability of their implementations and
confirm that they adhere to the NFV specifications that are being defined by ETSI.
Supporting open source communities include ETSI OSM (Open Source MANO), OPNFV,
OpenStack and Open Baton.
The five day interoperability session will deal with all key components of
NFV deployments, including virtual network functions (VNFs), NFV infrastructure
(NFVI), Virtual Infrastructure Managers (VIMs) and management and orchestration
(MANO) solutions. Over the course of the week a series of
comprehensive interoperability test sessions will be embarked upon. These will
cover the combining together of various different VNFs, NFV MANO solutions and
NFV platforms.
Extending the scope of
what was undertaken at the previous NFV Plugtests event, which took place
earlier this year in Leganés,
Spain, the sessions will encompass further important aspects that are now
emerging. These
will include multi-site operation, network path, enhanced platform awareness,
fault and performance management and NFV application programming interfaces to name
a few.
A vital aspect of this latest event
will be the continuous and ubiquitous testing environment that attendees
will have access to as they join the NFV Plugtests Programme. This exciting
innovation, based on the ETSI Hub for Interoperability and Validation (HIVE),
will enable remote integration and pre-testing for the event, but also further
collaborative testing and validation activities such as remote interoperability
testing, PoCs, demos or API validation during and between NFV Plugtests events.
ETSI OSM will in
parallel organize an OSM Hackfest which will support on-boarding activities
focusing on Day 0/1/2 operations (install, configure, optimize) that leverage
the latest capabilities offered by the OSM platform.
Please register for the
second ETSI NFV Plugtests event and join the NFV Plugtests Programme.
To know more
about NFV, join the special tutorial and SpecFest session on 11
September 2017 in Denver, CO, USA. You may also attend remotely.
Source: ETSI media announcement
