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The Linux Foundation Announces Intent to Form Open Source Unified Orchestrator Project for SDN and NFV

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2016-02-23 / 17:00
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA and BARCELONA, SPAIN --(Marketwired - February
23, 2016) -  Mobile World Congress - The Linux Foundation, the
nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open
source, today is announcing the intent to form the
OPEN-Orchestrator Project (OPEN-O). This collaborative effort
will bring the industry together to develop the first open source
software framework and orchestrator to enable agile
software-defined networking (SDN) and network function
virtualization (NFV) operations. The effort is being detailed
today at a press conference hosted by The Linux Foundation, China
Mobile and Huawei at Mobile World Congress.

Early support for OPEN-O comes from Brocade, China Mobile, China
Telecom, DynaTrace, Ericsson, F5 Networks, GigaSpaces, Huawei,
Infoblox, Intel, KT, Red Hat, Raisecom, Riverbed and ZTE. OPEN-O
is inviting others interested in this technology to participate.

'China born and global in nature, OPEN-O will unite industry
forces to set up the world's first SDN and NFV unified
orchestrator, serving as an important step in promoting deeper
convergence among SDN and NFV technologies and innovation in the
networking industry,' said Jim Zemlin, executive director, The
Linux Foundation.

Next-generation networking technologies such as SDN, NFV and
cloud computing are enabling autonomous, real-time telecom
operations. However, many conventional operational support
systems (OSS) are based on proprietary software, which leads to
fragmented technologies and interoperability issues for carriers.
As an open source orchestration framework, OPEN-O will integrate
open networking technologies and enable carriers to quickly and
cost-effectively implement SDN and NFV through open source code
development. The project will also aim to accelerate multi-vendor
integration, service innovation and improve agility across
network operations.

OPEN-O will follow governance practices consistent with Linux
Foundation projects, which could include a Technical Steering
Committee and an End User Advisory board to ensure alignment of
needs between the technical and end user communities. The project
intends to create a development and testing platform as well as
build and support an open source developer community.

'The Telecommunication 4.0 era features the full convergence of
IT and CT; it relies on NFV and SDN as the key technical enablers
for automatic deployment and agile operation. The orchestrator
functions at the top part of them play the critical role. We are
hoping that all partners work together to build the healthy
ecosystem and accelerate the maturity of SDN and NFV. By
embracing open source, China Mobile is expecting that the OPEN-O
project will develop state-of-art open-source orchestrator
software.'
Li Zhengmao, executive vice president of China Mobile

'Telecom networks are moving towards NFV/SDN, and Huawei will
help operators get there by re-architecting network
infrastructure by means of systems integration using OPEN-O. The
orchestrator is the core component for NFV/SDN-based systems
integration and involves a large number of multivendor
interfaces. Huawei embraces open source with the aim of achieving
an industry standard, together with industry partners, and to
realize flexible resource orchestration and scheduling in a
multivendor environment, thereby accelerating operators'
operations and transformation and driving future business
growth.'
Dr. Howard Liang, Huawei's senior vice president and president of
the Global Technical Service Dept.

For more information or to get involved, please visit:
https://www.openo.org

Additional Comments

'Operators are now facing the transformation of capabilities to
provide user-centric services, from connectivity-oriented service
to integrated cross-domain, cross-layer and cross-vendor
services. With the introduction of SDN and NFV, the networks are
becoming increasingly automatic and service-oriented, inspiring
much more creation and exploring to build up a rich and flat
ecosystem. OPEN-O will set up the world's first SDN and NFV
unified orchestrator platform. China Telecom is expecting this
platform can play a significant role in the development of
SDN/NFV. China Telecom is willing to work together with other
operators and partners to promote the collaborative innovation
and look forward to a bright future of SDN and NFV.'
Shen Shaoai, China Telecom's deputy general manager of Technology
Department

'Ericsson promotes and leads development of open source
ecosystems for next generation technologies, accelerating
adoption and industry alignment in key areas of the Ericsson 5G
and Networked Society vision. Ericsson welcomes open source
initiatives for SDN, NFV and Cloud and has been actively driving
industry alignments through OPNFV to benefit our customers and
partners. Orchestration provides a natural extension of the OPNFV
and virtualization ecosystem creating a platform for innovation
and collaboration in areas of service enablement and analytics
for networks to help our customers to succeed in their digital
transformations.'
Martin Bäckström, vice president and head of Group Function
Technology Industry Area Datacom of Ericsson

'As the provider of Cloudify, GigaSpaces is happy to contribute
to the OPEN-O initiative from our experience in core
orchestration functionality. Supporting OPEN-O fits naturally
with our belief in open source, multi-VIM, TOSCA-based
orchestration solutions aligned with the ETSI standard. It's
perfect for our existing partners and users, many of whom support
OPEN-O, such as Brocade, MetaSwitch and Nominum, alongside
carriers such as Deutsche Telekom and Orange Labs. We share the
same vision of IT and CT convergence. Cloudify is already in use
at leading enterprises and telcos for cloud-native applications,
microservices and network orchestration, and OPEN-O hold the
promise of delivering new value through open standards.'
Nati Shalom, CTO, GigaSpaces

'Open source is already producing significant innovations in NFV
and SDN, helping telecommunications to modernize and move to
next-generation networks. Management and network operations
(MANO) represents a critical pillar of NFV solutions and to
achieve real interoperability, it needs to be built
collaboratively by open source community efforts. OPEN-O offers
the potential to drive even more collaboration and faster
innovation, with many industry leaders working together to
advance networking operations.'
Chris Wright, vice president and chief technologist, Red Hat.

About The Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is the organization of choice for the
world's top developers and companies to build ecosystems that
accelerate open technology development and commercial adoption.
Together with the worldwide open source community, it is solving
the hardest technology problems by creating the largest shared
technology investment in history. Founded in 2000, The Linux
Foundation today provides tools, training and events to scale any
open source project, which together deliver an economic impact
not achievable by any one company. More information can be found
at www.linuxfoundation.org.

The Linux Foundation and Linux Standard Base are trademarks of
The Linux Foundation. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds.



Media Contact
Jennifer Cloer
The Linux Foundation
503-867-2304
Jennifer@linuxfoundation.org

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