VMware Unveils vCloud For NFV With Integrated OpenStack to Help Service Providers Accelerate Service Innovation - Seite 3

"We are seeing OpenStack momentum continue to grow across the CSP market as our customers seek to achieve greater agility, and to leverage Open APIs to support true multi-vendor NFV. OpenStack also supports the NFV objective of dramatically reducing infrastructure costs to address continued margin erosion," continued Ayyar. "CSPs need an OpenStack distribution that is optimized for a mature NVFI platform that helps them get started today and carries them through tomorrow, and VMware will meet this need by offering customers a fast and simple path to OpenStack adoption."

Additional Commentary from VMware Partners

"We share a belief with VMware that NFV represents a truly disruptive technology that is capable of re-defining the way mobile networks are built today. With more than 20 deployments and 40 trials currently underway with global operators, we are committed to providing our customers with the most flexible and reliable solutions available. We have partnered with VMware to deliver today's only production NFV solution that allows mobile operators to improve their cost-structure, streamline their operations and significantly accelerate their service creation capabilities as they continue to deploy this truly transformational technology worldwide." - Hassan Ahmed, chairman and CEO, Affirmed Networks

"Last month, Telekom Austria Group¹s Serbian subsidiary, Vip mobile, demonstrated the world's first fully virtualized LTE stack in a live network, delivering data, voice and IMS services, with Connectem, providing the virtual Evolved Packet Core across VMware's Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure based on vSphere. Connectem and VMware have collaborated to combined production-proven NFVI to Connectem¹s Virtual Core for Mobile solution. We are very pleased to have worked with VMware to demonstrate the power of network functions virtualization in creating new and better options for telecoms services delivery." - Nishi Kant, Chief Executive Officer, Connectem Inc.

"NFV is a disruptive force poised to change how service providers operate their networks and drive service revenue. The combination of VMware vCloud NFV Platform featuring OpenStack integration, with Cyan's carrier SDN and NFV orchestration, creates a best-in-class solution for the Telco Cloud." - Joe Cumello, Chief Marketing Officer, Cyan