ADVA Optical Networking Joins OPNFV to Help Drive Network Functions Virtualization

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Company's NFV Team to Play Key Role in Developing Open Source Platform

Munich, Germany. April 9, 2015. ADVA Optical Networking announced today that it has officially joined the Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV). As a member of the OPNFV, ADVA Optical Networking will play a key role in helping to shape the community's discussions and focus. Established in September 2014, the OPNFV is an open source project aimed at accelerating the development and adoption of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). The OPNFV's community is composed of a broad range of service providers, hardware manufacturers and software vendors, including AT&T, IBM and Juniper Networks. Together the community is developing an integrated open source platform that can be used to build NFV functionality.

"NFV presents the industry with an incredible opportunity; an opportunity to simplify network infrastructure, an opportunity to rapidly respond to networking needs. But we're only at the start of this journey," said Christoph Glingener, CTO, ADVA Optical Networking. "What's key in such an early stage of a technology's development is that the supporting community moves forward together. The transition from vendor-specific, monolithic networks to open architecture requires clear collaboration and communication throughout the entire ecosystem. It's critical that there are no silos, no fragments. That's why we're part of the OPNFV. We believe in working together to develop open source platforms that can help the entire community. With such a collaborative approach we'll move forward quicker and with greater success." 

ADVA Optical Networking's OPNFV membership is the latest in a series of NFV-focused announcements that showcase the company's commitment to the technology. In addition to a number of demonstrations that showed how NFV could be used to develop virtual customer premise equipment solutions and virtualized radio access backhaul networks, ADVA Optical Networking also recently revealed its long-term NFV strategy. This strategy is focused on the expansion of its best-in-breed ADVA FSP 150 Carrier Ethernet portfolio and will include a number of new Network Interface Devices (NIDs). These new NIDs will become a vital aspect of the OPNFV's activities as it seeks to fully highlight the benefits of true NFV-centric networks.