Vodafone Joins Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Project
Global Operator To Accelerate Open Source
Innovation and Automation
The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Project today announced that Vodafone Group has joined as a Platinum member. The
addition of Vodafone, one of the world’s largest service providers with
operations in 26 countries, demonstrates the continuing momentum ONAP
is achieving and highlights Vodafone’s ongoing commitment to open
standards and open source.
Through worldwide collaboration and
open development, Vodafone will help ONAP in its mission to deliver a
neutral automation platform for network, infrastructure and services
across service providers, cloud providers and enterprises challenged to
provide on-demand services profitably and competitively, while
leveraging existing investments.
Vodafone has been one of the early
movers in the telecommunications industry to embrace virtualization and
cloud technologies, with a program underway to drive the adoption of
software-defined networks (SDN) and network functions virtualization
(NFV) technologies across the group, together with the necessary
operational transformation required. With its scale, experience and
focus on such a significant group-wide transformation, Vodafone is
extremely well-positioned to help drive the ONAP initiative from design
through to practical implementation across the industry.
“We are looking forward to joining and
collaborating with the ONAP community,” said Fran Heeran, Group Head of
Network Virtualization at Vodafone and ONAP governing board member.
“In working with The Linux Foundation and other ONAP members, we look
forward to contributing to and driving this exciting initiative as
Vodafone continues to implement its network virtualization
transformation program. Vodafone’s membership demonstrates the company’s
commitment to open platforms and open source in helping to drive
innovation and transformation across the telecommunication industry,
especially in the areas of SDN and NFV.”
Vodafone joins 17 other global service
providers and technology leaders that are platinum ONAP members,
including Amdocs, AT&T, Bell, China Mobile, China Telecom, Cisco,
Ericsson, GigaSpaces, Huawei, IBM, Intel, Jio, Nokia, Orange, Tech
Mahindra, VMware and ZTE.
“With Vodafone and so many other
global telecom companies investing in ONAP so early on, the project is
incredibly well-positioned to swiftly deliver a common platform for
rapidly designing, implementing and managing differentiated services,”
said Arpit Joshipura, General Manager, The Linux Foundation. “We are
honored to have Vodafone participate at the highest level as a platinum
member and believe their participation will help shape the future of
network automation.”
Vodafone joins the expanding ONAP
community, which includes nearly 1,000 developers and 45 members,
representing 55 percent of global subscribers. The ONAP community will
come together for a technical face-to-face meeting on September 25-27 in
Paris, France. Additional details can be found here.
About the Open Network Automation Platform
The Open Network Automation Platform
(ONAP) Project brings together top global carriers and vendors with the
goal of allowing end users to automate, design, orchestrate and manage
services and virtual functions. ONAP unites two major open networking
and orchestration projects, open source ECOMP and the Open Orchestrator
Project (OPEN-O), with the mission of creating a unified architecture
and implementation and supporting collaboration across the open source
community. The ONAP Project is a Linux Foundation project.
Source: Vodafone
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