The OPNFV Project, a carrier-grade, integrated, open source platform intended to accelerate the introduction of new products and services using Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), has announced at the OPNFV Summit the results of a global survey conducted by Heavy Reading to understand network operators’ perceptions of OPNFV and how the project accelerates NFV transformation.
Carriers have a variety of hopes for OPNFV, but interoperability and integration top the list, according to a Heavy Reading survey presented today at the OPNFV Summit in Beijing.
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OPNFV and Heavy Reading survey reveals growth in importance of OPNFV among operators, broadened scope of upstream integrators
BEIJING – OPNFV Summit – June 14, 2017 – The OPNFV Project, a carrier-grade, integrated, open source platform intended to accelerate the introduction of new products and services using Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), today announced onstage at OPNFV Summit the results of a global survey conducted by Heavy Reading to understand network operators’ perceptions of OPNFV and how the project accelerates NFV transformation. The data indicated continued confidence in OPNFV as 98 percent of survey respondents agree that at almost three years in, OPNFV is delivering on its promise to accelerate open source NFV.
Designed to gauge market perceptions of the OPNFV project over time, the survey is the third in a series conducted by Heavy Reading analyzing telecommunications network operator perceptions of how OPNFV impacts the industry. The data includes an updated analysis of the state and impact of OPNFV among operators, its role in shaping open source NFV, industry intent to leverage OPNFV output, as well as current drivers, barriers and integration needed for success in advancing open source NFV adoption.
Key findings include:
- OPNFV remains critical to industry adoption of NFV. 98 percent of telecom operators surveyed are either somewhat or very satisfied that OPNFV is delivering on its promise to help accelerate open source NFV adoption, while almost half (45 percent) said OPNFV is most helpful for operators to achieve their NFV goals. The top expected benefits of OPNFV output include easier integration and more rapid NFV deployment.
- OPNFV is growing in importance, particularly among those currently deploying NFV. More than half (54 percent) of nearly 100 Communication Service Providers (CSPs) surveyed said OPNFV has become more important to their organization over the past year; that number jumps to 70 percent for those with NFV in production. Similarly, 75 of those surveyed actively follow OPNFV, with more than a quarter of them directly contributing to the project.
- OPNFV is moving from Proof of Concept (PoC) to production. In addition to OpenStack and SDN controllers– which are foundational upstream integrators for OPNFV–CSPs are acknowledging the importance of additional supports needed for open source telco designs. Now, they are acknowledging the value of hardware based on open source designs (51 percent cited the Open Compute Project specifically), leveraging technologies to provide performance needed to support demanding telco workloads (41 percent cited DPDK), and stronger focus on operational issues (32 percent cited ONAP), and optimizing applications for improved efficiency (37 percent cited Docker).
- Though still in the early stages, DevOps plays a critical role to the overall success of NFV. 80 percent of survey respondents feel DevOps is essential or important to the success of NFV, with half either evaluating various toolchains (26 percent) or working on automating and testing infrastructure (25 percent). However, less than 15 percent are currently building CI/CD pipelines internally and only 13 percent currently push patches to production daily via automated tools/validation. Bringing true DevOps methodologies across multiple communities is a key tenet of OPNFV and the project continues to make progress in the creation of a truly integrated DevOps pipeline for NFV.
- Testing and interoperability rank among top OPNFV activities. Top OPNFV activities important to operators include: providing VNF interoperability testing on different platforms; promoting network operator interest in upstream projects; helping converge architectural concepts; and providing end-to-end functional system testing. Similarly, close to half of respondents ranked documentation and consistent environment configuration across multiple stacks as critical OPNFV activities. This is a testament to OPNFV’s testing activities – including the Pharos Community Labs, a federated NFV testing infrastructure of community labs designed for hosting CI/CD and testing of the OPNFV platform – continue to flourish.
- Barriers still remain. Despite continued progress, barriers to NFV adoption still remain – including interoperability between core infrastructure platforms and VNFs; maturity of MANO software and OSS/BSS integration; and cultural issues/mindset. To help overcome some of these barriers, OPNFV will put a greater focus on developer training and onboarding, improve documentation, and better quantify upstream impact.
“It’s encouraging to see validation from operators that OPNFV is on the right path, especially among those with NFV in production, and that OPNFV’s importance to the ecosystem continues to increase,” said Heather Kirksey, director, OPNFV. “Feedback continues to be incredibly helpful as we shape our strategy and refine our approach. As the ecosystem evolves it’s critical we work to best meet the ever-changing needs of network operators in the march towards broad open source NFV adoption.”
The survey, which includes input from more than 98 network operator professionals across North and South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East focused on engineering, research and development strategy, network planning and corporate management. Survey results were shared on stage during the third annual OPNFV Summit, which brings together developers, end users, and upstream communities working to advance open source NFV. More details on the survey results are available here.
OPNFV Summit also featured a live keynote demonstration by the OPNFV community of a Virtual Central Office (vCO) hosting Residential and Enterprise vCPE services. The demonstration showed a platform built using an OpenStack cloud, OpenDaylight SDN controller, OpenCompute Platform (OCP) compliant hardware, and on-boarding of a series of VNFs providing end-to-end services. The demonstration showed this network service working live on stage provisioning connectivity and vCPE, with real-time telemetry and analytics, fault management and service assurance. A video of the demo will be available on the OPNFV You Tube channel following the event.
OPNFV also announced plans for its fourth OPNFV Plugfest focused on the upcoming OPNFV Euphrates release. The event will take place December 4 – 9 at the Intel campus near Portland, Ore. A summary of outcomes from the recent OPNFV Danube Plugfest, which took place April 24 -28 at Orange Gardens near Paris, is available here.
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Plugfests follow the Aristotelian rules of drama: unity of action, of time and of place, and as such, are an incredible humane catalyst for the community. Being able to discuss with all the actors (installers, testing, infrastructure, features) in one place during one week prevents months of complex interoperability tests or remote discussions.
As with previous Plugfests, several activities were done in parallel: bugs were reported; solutions installed on new hardware; tests executed both on-site and on remote systems. Open Compute Project (OCP) and smart NIC activities were especially interesting, associating OPNFV with cutting-edge hardware solutions. MANO was officially introduced into OPNFV Danube (via Heat, Cloudify, Tacker, Open-O, OpenBaton). The cross-sessions with ONAP were useful to prepare OPNFV Euphrates and position OPNFV as a target infrastructure to deploy and evaluate orchestrator function, mainly through future cross CI activities.
OPNFV Plugfest is also the right place to meet people and evaluate new concepts: power consumption prototype was shared with the community, encouraging the developer to go further and leverage the Pharos Labs federation to collect more information.
Paradoxically, I think that one of the main outcomes of this Plugfest is related to the fact that we were able to break the system. Stress tests have been introduced in OPNFV Danube and clearly identified some limitations on OPNFV, but also commercial solutions. The capability to identify such problems, to reproduce them, is crucial to evolve towards a real carrier-grade solution. In addition to destructive stress tests, the ability to set up a realistic load test campaign using a commercial virtual loader on a virtual IMS also indicated a better level of maturity of the ecosystem.
The biggest takeaway is that Plugfest provides additional evidence that OPNFV continues to make real progress. Despite its relatively informal atmosphere as compared to traditional and complementary interoperability events, I think the week was too short for most of the participants. We may also note Plugfests now attract a new type of actor, which includes non OPNFV members, which is fantastic.
The challenges do remain, especially related to performance, qualification and orchestration, and we certainly have our work cut out for us. But OPNFV Danube priorities clearly identified fields to be consolidated: for instance, a complete robustness/stress test strategy still needs to be built.
Learning, sharing and shaping the future: this Plugfest, like the others, was a great success!
More details on the specific outcomes of the OPNFV Danube Plugfest can be found on the official Plugfest white paper, available here.
The next OPNFV Plugfest will take place at the Intel campus near Portland, OR, December 4-8, 2017, and will focus on the upcoming OPNFV Euphrates release. Stay tuned for more details!
Many thanks to Nokia, Huawei and Advantech for having provided on-site equipment. Special thanks to Orange’s organization team, coordinated by Claire Chabrier Larroche and Xiaolong Kong, for their devoted work since the beginning of the year, without which this event could not have happened.
HPE’s Dr. Prodip Sen, CTO of NFV at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise and OPNFV Board of Directors Chair, will deliver a keynote address during the upcoming OPNFV Summit focused on “Cloudification of the Telco Network – Are we There Yet?” Read below for a preview of what you can expect from Dr. Sen’s keynote at OPNFV Summit this year. OPNFV Summit is taking place June 12-15 in Beijing. More details, including onsite agenda and how to register, are available here: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/opnfv-summit
Tell us about your involvement in OPNFV (and open source networking in general) and how it’s evolved over time.
I am currently the Chair of the OPNFV Board of Directors, and have been the chair since the inception of OPNFV three years ago. (Time for a change I guess!) My involvement with OPNFV and open source in general started as an outgrowth of the NFV movement which some industry veterans (including myself) helped create. We were looking for an alternative to the typical standards track to encourage faster development and deployment of the technologies required for NFV, and the telco network transformation in general. This led to my awareness of open source and the creation of the OPNFV organization. Since then, I have been engaged with activities in other open source organizations such as OpenStack and OpenDaylight.
Where do you see your role — and that of OPNFV – in terms of the broader end-to-end open networking stack?
My interest is, and has always been, in seeing how all these open networking activities fit together and how we can make them more synergistic. I see OPNFV as a crucial organization in being the integration project that provides a space for putting the entire stack together. And eventually, showcasing use cases important to the users of this stack.
What new technology or trend in the networking space are you most curious about and why?
Not so much a trend/technology in networking per se, but I am very interested in how the industry takes the last steps of the journey to cloudify the network. We need to incorporate many of the lessons learned from cloud-as-a-service architectures, microservices etc. and consolidate into a more constrained, quality-of-experience centered world. Will either survive the clash?
In what ways has the industry progressed towards broader adoption of NFV? What are the hurdles?
There has been a lot of progress in telco adoption over the few years since the movement was launched – from skepticism, to grudging acceptance, to “show me,” to now routine inclusion in RFIs, RFPs and trials. We all know that the telco adoption cycle is very long – so it is especially encouraging to see such a new approach gain traction in so short a time. On the other hand, the optimists among us hoped for faster adoption and true large-scale deployment by this time. The hurdles we’re facing are not new or unexpected; many in the industry hoped for (perhaps expected) a faster transformation in attitudes and organizational change, though both are still somewhat lagging.
Can you give us a preview of what you’ll be talking about onstage at OPNFV Summit in Beijing?
I will be talking about the Cloudification and Disaggregation stages of the telco journey to the cloud, and what we in the industry, and open source and OPNFV in particular, need to pay attention to.
ZTE’s Zhang Fan, Chief Architect of Packet Core, will deliver a keynote address at the upcoming OPNFV Summit focused on “NFV Practice for vEPC Commercial Network.” Read below for a preview of what you can expect from ZTE onsite at OPNFV Summit this year. OPNFV Summit is taking place June 12-15 in Beijing. More details, including onsite agenda and how to register, are available here: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/opnfv-summit
Tell us about your involvement in OPNFV — and open source networking in general. How has this evolved over time?
ZTE’s open source road began in 2014. Now, more than 200 professional developers from ZTE are working with partners in 13 open source communities. Recent Stackalytics.com data shows ZTE is among the top contributors within the OPNFV, OpenStack, and kubernetes communities. ZTE looks forward to continued work with SDN/NFV ecosystem partners to promote maturity of open source and industrial software development.
More specifically, ZTE has released enhanced network solutions, including an SDN controller, SDN switches, intelligent NICs and data plane acceleration. ZTE ZENIC SDN Controller, ZTE DVS (OVS based) and mobile core network are using these technologies via open source.
ZTE’s involvement in open source is currently employed within several commercial products and projects like ZX-TECS based on Openstack and ZX-vManager based on OPEN-O.
Where do you see your role — and that of OPNFV — in terms of the broader end-to-end open networking stack?
OPNFV plays a key role in the integration of IT technologies and standards organizations by centralizing the ecosystem via a dedicated reference platform, which speeds up NFV development and maturity. Since OPNFV representatives are comprised of CT vendors, operators, and IT vendors, among others; OPNFV reflects common requirements needed across the NFV ecosystem. For example, OPNFV’s strong collaboration with other upstream communities including OpenStack, OpenDaylight, DPDK, FD.io, etc. illustrate the project’s ability to serve as a connection across the end-to-end open networking stack.
OPNFV is the only open source community targeting NFV solutions, including infrastructure, VIM and MANO. ZTE is pleased to be joining the OPNFV community along the journey to accelerate open source NFV.
What new technology or trend in the networking space are you most curious about and why?
As NFV/SDN technologies have been deployed by operators and will continue to enable 5G and IoT applications, network infrastructure must be optimized to adjust to a centralized management for controlling the plane, high throughput traffic and ultra-low latency for the data plane. Cloud deployment needs to be extended from the core to the edge. The focus of networking is shifting from functions to efficiency and performance.
On the one hand, SDN is playing a critical role in coordinating all open source components to optimize the network architecture and improve network efficiency. SDN makes it possible to manage the entire network through intelligent orchestration and management systems in a 5G network. So it is quite interesting to investigate how best to provide continuous delivery (CD) of services based on dynamic network functions and automated deployment mechanisms in future networks.
On the other hand, the performance must be improved to meet the requirements of 5G and AR/VR, etc. Currently, we already focus on the software level to identify mechanisms to enhance the processing as fast as possible. By introducing upstream projects like FD.io, we can achieve more data plane acceleration. On top of that, hardware acceleration is also an up-and-coming technical trend. We need to take into consideration that some complex computing or algorithm processing can be offloaded to intelligent cards, which will release a lot of hardware core resources of the data plane being used.
In what ways has the industry progressed towards broader adoption of NFV? What are the hurdles?
For starters, the proposed NFV architecture or solution must provide a cost-effective way to help operators build their networks. There are many open source communities; we need to integrate them together to make networking simpler and more agile. Currently, a lot of operators have started transforming their network, so it is the right time to introduce NFV to replace traditional network components.
Secondly, the industry should adopt more and more vendors and apps to build an open ecosystem instead of the traditional “chimney style.” We should consider how to provide a common platform to make all components integrate more closely. For example, ZTE ElasticNet integrates SDN and NFV technology in order to break the isolation between components. This gives customers a better experience in terms of management, service and new business models.
Additionally, the industry needs to target upcoming new networks and new services. The architecture must be adapted to future (5~10 years’) requirements. With 5G and IoT booming, cloud native- based technology is a good way to broaden NFV.
One of the major hurdles towards broader adoption of NFV is closed architecture and deployment methods. Some industry projects are not authentic NFV networks, but just simple virtualization within one vendor. We need to break vendor lock by leveraging open cloud networks, where customers can select products based on different layers and needs; otherwise, big barriers continue to block large-scale NFV application growth.
Can you give us a preview of what you’ll be talking about onstage at OPNFV Summit in Beijing?
We’re looking forward to participating in this year’s OPNFV Summit! In addition to introducing commercial NFV mobile network practices beneficial to open source community development during the main keynotes, ZTE will be onsite for the Design Summit beginning Monday, June 12. We are excited to collaborate with the community, particularly regarding plans for the next OPNFV release, Euphrates.
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The countdown to this year’s OPNFV Summit is on! We’re headed to Beijing June 12-15 for four days of connecting global communities via tutorials, sessions, demos and keynotes targeted toward a diverse set of industry attendees. The largest gathering of OPNFV developers and community members from across the globe, OPNFV Summit is an annual conference to collaborate, innovate and explore the latest developments in open source Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). OPNFV is The Linux Foundation’s open source project for integrated testing of the full, next-generation networking stack. Will you join us?
With just a few weeks to go, we are pleased to announce our preliminary lineup of expert keynote speakers ready to share their insights and perspectives along the NFV journey.
The keynote presentations will cover a wide range of topics, including:
- Accelerating the maturity and adoption of NFV
- Turning networks to meet the needs of global communities
- Deployment experience of vEPC in commercial networks
- Cloudification of the telco network
Here are a few of the industry leaders participating as keynote speakers/panelists:
- Heather Kirksey, Director, OPNFV
- Zhang Fan, Chief Architect of Packet Core, ZTE
- John Healy, VP, Data Center Group, GM, Datacenter Network Solutions Group, Intel
- Susan James, Head of Product Line NFV Infrastructure, Ericsson
- Forrest Lee, OPNFV Open Source Development Team Director, Huawei
- Prodip Sen, CTO of NFV, HPE
- Lingli Deng, Principal Engineer, China Mobile Research Institute
- Chongfeng Xie, Director, IP and Future Network Research Center, CTBR
- Eric Debeau, Head of R&D Team, Orange
- Wei Leping, China SDN/NFV Alliance
Along with our featured keynote presentations, this year’s event will feature a diverse set of more than 65 presentations and demos spanning session tracks that include: Community and Upstream; Futures and Research; NFV Applications and Orchestration; NFV Platform Requirements; NFV Strategy and End User Stories; and Testing, Infrastructure and DevOps. You can view the full Summit agenda, including keynotes, breakout sessions, and demos, here: http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/opnfv-summit/program/schedule
OPNFV Summit also includes a handful of co-located events, including those hosted by some of our upstream communities. Included in this year’s line-up are: OPNFV Orientation, Sunday, June 11; The OPNFV Developer Design Forum, Monday & Tuesday, June 12-13; ONAP Mini-Summit, Monday, June 12; OpenDaylight Mini-Summit, June 12; CNCF Day at OPNFV, Tuesday, June 13; FD.io and DPDK Mini-Summit, Tuesday, June 13; OpenStack Upstream Institute, Wednesday & Thursday, June 14-15; and the Open-NFP Developer Conference, Monday, June 12; and more.
OPNFV Summit 2017 will be here in just a few weeks! Make your plans to join us now.
To register for the OPNFV Summit — including information on traveling, accomodations, and visas — please visit http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/opnfv-summit/attend/registration. Members of the media who would like to reserve a complimentary press pass to OPNFV Summit should contactpr@opnfv.org.
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May 16, 2017 10:28 ET
Light Reading Announces 2017 Leading Lights Awards Winners
The Telecom Industry’s Most Prestigious Awards Have Recognized the Leaders in the Communications Networking Industry, Including Those Innovating in NFV, 5G, SDN, the Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud Services and More
NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwired – May 16, 2017) – Light Reading (www.lightreading.com), the market-leading online community for the global communications sector, today announced the winners for this year’s Leading Lights Awards, with major industry names including AT&T, Amdocs, Cisco Systems, Equinix, Nokia and Qualcomm amongst this year’s winners.
The winners of the Leading Lights Awards, the telecom industry’s most prestigious awards program that is now in its 13th year, and the identities of the latest inductees to the Light Reading Hall of Fame, were announced last night at an exclusive awards dinner held at Austin’s Brazos Hall. The awards were held on the eve of the Big Communications Event (www.bigcommunicationsevent.com).
The 2017 Leading Lights program, which this year comprised 23 core awards and two Women in Comms categories, recognizes top companies and executives for their outstanding achievements in next-generation communications technology, applications, services, strategies and innovations.
“The quality and number of submissions we received this year across all of our categories, which this year included specialist awards for Outstanding Communications Technology Vision and Most Innovative 5G Technology Strategy, was testament to the innovation that underpins developments in the global communications industry and once again showed how seriously the industry takes this awards program,” said Light Reading International Group Editor Ray Le Maistre. “The winners, and all of the finalists, can be proud of their achievements, as can the quartet of Hall of Fame inductees. Congratulations to all!”
To find out who won see:
Leading Lights 2017: The Winners
http://www.lightreading.com/bce/leading-lights-2017-the-winners/d/d-id/732837
Women in Comms 2017 Awards Winners:
The Hall of Fame recognizes those individuals who have made a notable contribution to the global communications sector. This year’s Light Reading Hall of Fame Inductees include Netflix founder and CEO Reed Hastings, and Stanford University professor Nick McKeown. For the full details of all four new inductees, watch our video:
Light Reading Hall of Fame 2017
Leading Lights judging was conducted by Light Reading’s editors with input from the analyst team at Heavy Reading (http://www.heavyreading.com).
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The Open Platform for Network Functions Virtualization (OPNFV) project within the Linux Foundation is not your typical open source networking project! It’s essentially a systems integration and testing project that pulls together relevant components from other open source projects “downstream” into a reference NFV Platform. Importantly, it also facilitates the development and evolution of NFV components by submitting user requirements “upstream.” In this way, it can be though of as “mid-stream” project that serves to accelerate the development of NFV products and services.
OPNFV performs system integration as an open community effort. The technical community mantra is “Create. Compose. Test. Deploy. Iterate.” which means OPNFV creates and evolves components in lock-step with upstream communities, composes and integrates those components, deploys and tests the integrated system, and finally publishes the test results – all in an iterative and fully automated way. This is an example of DevOps for networking in the open. OPNFV also works closely with end users to ensure the outputs are meeting their requirements and facilitate the software-defined transformation of their networks.
Coming off the project’s fourth major release, Danube, Heather Kirksey and Frank Brockners will show how OPNFV has evolved to further support the open source networking ecosystem—including OPNFV’s sophisticated Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) infrastructure, testing capabilities, and DevOps methodologies. They’ll also explain how to get involved and contribute to this dynamic and growing project.
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The OPNFV community is comprised of a diverse set of active developers who are passionate about transforming the industry through open source NFV. This blog series highlights the people who are collaborating in the trenches to transform global networks through open source NFV.
About Sofia Wallin
Sofia is currently working as an R&D Project Manager at Ericsson. As part of the Ericsson Cloud Systems and Technology organization, she is involved in driving open source engagements as well as internal strategies. She started at Ericsson in 2011, and before joining OPNFV, she was responsible for establishing the release handling process for the Ericsson Cloud System development organization.
How are you involved with OPNFV (e.g., specific projects or focus areas)?
I am the PTL for one of the projects, Opnfvdocs. The Opnfvdocs project is responsible for the user and community/platform documentation. Our main purpose is to provide the community with guidelines on how to document each release; this includes document structure and templates as well as tooling and branding, which ensures consistency across all OPNFV projects. Working with documentation gives you a broad understanding of the platform since it requires cooperation with pretty much all projects involved. It is a central and fun part of development that often gets a bit overlooked but is very important; it is the link between the product and its users.
What are you most proud of with the OPNFV Danube release?
During the Danube release we achieved a great goal migrating our documentation to the newly established, docs.opnfv.org.
We are using read the docs which is a community supported documentation host. Supporting various tools, read the docs allows the user to set up an environment that suits current standards. We didn’t want the migration to affect how the projects work with their documentation and at the same time not compromise on quality, I’m happy with the outcome and this is a result of efforts from everyone involved in the migration.
As part of the cross-collaboration initiative for documentation, we are currently working together with ODL and FD.io to create a common way of publishing and branding our documentation, and this migration was a great achievement for OPNFV. By making the documentation accessible through its own top domain we are increasing the usability.
What’s also new for Danube is that we use Google Analytics that enable us to track downloads. As a PTL, it is important for me to see what documentation is actually being read. If we are spending time documenting parts that no one is paying attention to we should perhaps rethink and spend more time on the parts that our users are reading and using.
What advice would you give to developers (or others) interested in joining the OPNFV community?
Be curious and don’t be shy. It’s scary to push your first commits for review before knowing how it will be received, but that is the whole point – to collaborate. You will never learn as much as you do when working within an open source project, and OPNFV is definitely not an exception. You will get to know people from all around the world, from different companies with different backgrounds, personalities, and competences. It’s amazing!
What part of the world do you live in? Why there?
I was born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden….the capital of Scandinavia. It’s a beautiful city with a lot of things to do and see. Rich architecture and history is everywhere. I’m blessed to live in the city center within walking distance to restaurants, museums, bars or whatever I’m up for.