It’s no secret that females are underrepresented in the comms, and larger technology, industry. According to Census Bureau data, women only make up about one fourth, or 26.5%, of tech jobs in the US.
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Arpit Joshipura a veteran tech executive who has worked at Dell, Ericsson and Nortel
In recognition of the increasingly central role open source technology has played for the networking sector, the Linux Foundation today named Arpit Joshipura as its general manager for networking and orchestration.
Read more at CIO.
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 the 2017 OPNFV Summit will be held in Beijing, China, June 12-15, 2017 at the JW Marriott Beijing. The Summit provides an opportunity to reach the innovative communities, developers and companies transforming the networking industry through open source NFV.
Read more at VMblog.com.
Dialogic, a company that provides communications applications, today rolled out a cloud and network functions virtualization (NFV) test bed.
Its NFV proving ground is based on the OPNFV code for a virtualized infrastructure manager (VIM). Dialogic is a member of the OPNFV open source group.
Read more at SDx Central.
The number of significant open source projects related to networking, automation, and orchestration likely number in the dozens. The reasons for this plethora of projects range from politics to pragmatism, and points in between.
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There are few things more frustrating than a dropped call. At the keynote during OpenStack Barcelona 2016 conference, the folks behind the Open Platform for Network Functions Virtualization Project (OPNFV) demonstrated, in a most dramatic fashion, the resilience of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) technology, and how it could minimize such call drops.
Read more at The New Stack.
A recent survey released by the Linux Foundation’s Open Platform for NFV Project, found an increasingly small percentage of telecom operators have not yet planned for network functions virtualization.
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Just 21 months in, OPNFV will deliver on its promise of accelerating NFV. This is what pretty much all (99 per cent) telecommunications operators polled by Heavy Reading think.
Read more at ITProPortal.
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At the OPNFV event in Berlin this week, Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced that it will participate in the Linux Foundation’s OPNFV Pharos Project via its own OpenNFV Labs. HPE will also institute processes to verify that its OpenNFV partners (who now number over 75) have OPNFV compliant solutions, allowing them to confirm they can run on the OPNFV platform and ensure OPNFV compatibility across environments and vendors, furthering HPE’s open, multi-vendor approach to NFV. Service providers will then then be able to connect with OPNFV-certified virtual network functions (VNF) partners through the OpenNFV Solution Portal.
Read more at Telecom TV.