HP has introduced OpenNFV, a comprehensive Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) program designed to help the telecommunications industry launch new services faster, easier and with less expense through the virtualisation of telecommunications core networks and network functions.
The HP OpenNFV Program enables Communications Service Providers (CSPs) to accelerate time to market and drive new revenue. HP claims it allows CSPs to leverage commercial off-the-shelf hardware with virtualisation to test and deploy new offerings in minutes rather than months.
At the heart of the HP OpenNFV Program is the HP OpenNFV Reference Architecture. This provides a complete architectural ecosystem covering physical servers, storage and networking, virtualisation, controllers for software-defined networking, resource management and orchestration, analytics, telco applications, and a complete operations support system.
The reference architecture is based on open standards. It incorporates the HP Virtual Services Router and SDN capabilities that complement NFV, including the HP Virtual Application Networks,SDN Controller and HP Open SDN Ecosystem.
HP’s partner ecosystem gives application partners a broad choice of NFV-specific environments to quickly onboard their specific applications and reduce deployment time. Current efforts with HP partners include developing proofs of concept for turnkey NFV deployments, including infrastructure as a service, virtual network platform as a service and core network virtualisation.
Several updated telco applications and offerings are being launched as part of the HP OpenNFV Program, including NFV Director, Virtual Home Subscriber Server, Multimedia Services Environment, Virtual Content Delivery Network Software as well as consulting and financial support services.
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