Oracle Communications Advances Network Function Virtualization by Delivering Carrier-Grade Data Center Performance - Seite 2

For this initiative, Oracle Communications optimized specific products for the Intel ONP using OpenStack open source infrastructure management software and its Enhanced Platform Awareness capabilities. The optimized products are part of Oracle's orchestration framework, including Oracle Communications Network Service Orchestration Solution. By directing the Intel platform to dynamically establish data center resource pools that mimic the specialized characteristics of a network appliance (such as large memory pages), the orchestration software can then route the work to the correct pool, based on each function's unique needs. Moreover, this orchestration activity can work for any network equipment vendor's interface, preserving the CSP community's requirement to support multi-vendor environments. Oracle and Intel contribute to and support the widely accepted OpenStack initiative.

The project highlights the importance of orchestrating network functions at the processor-attribute level. In this scenario, Oracle Communications solutions optimize performance of the Intel Xeon™ E5-2600 v3 processor, which is built specifically for networking requirements. The platform offers NFV software adaptability for network functions, while meeting the performance and reliability found in network appliances.

"NFV resource orchestrators need awareness of infrastructure inventory and capability as well as network function requirements in order to match the two for optimal cost and performance. Oracle and Intel have achieved noteworthy platform awareness with this project. Intel contributed broadly to the OpenStack Enhanced Platform Awareness Initiative, and now Oracle is the first to actually harness this capability as a function of its intelligent orchestration framework," said Dana Cooperson, research director, head of Telecoms Virtualization Research, Analysys Mason.

The Oracle Communications Network Service Orchestration Solution with Enhanced Platform Awareness using the Intel ONP will be on display at Oracle Industry Connect 2015, March 25 through 26, in Washington DC. Executive keynote speakers from Intel will address the value of the open industry collaboration on Wednesday, March 25, at 3:45 p.m., along with a panel discussion on Enhanced Platform Awareness on Thursday, March 26, from 10:45 to 11:30 a.m. in the Oracle Communications track at this collaborative, cross-industry event.

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