Atos announces a multi-vendor alliance to accelerate the delivery of value from Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV)

In parallel the alliance launches a global multi-vendor NFV laboratory initiative

Paris, 27^th September 2017 - Atos, a leader in digital transformation, announces today the creation of a multi-vendor alliance with Dell EMC, Intel, Juniper Networks, Red Hat and VMware, to accelerate the delivery of value from NFV (Network Functions Virtualisation). Atos created the alliance to answer the business challenges that telecoms operators face today to migrate the telecoms networks from a traditional physical model to a modern virtual environment.

The alliance is born from a shared vision of how to help our mutual clients achieve the business benefits of:

            - Reduced Capex

            - Reduced Opex

            - Increased business agility

With these objectives in mind, the alliance has designed and built an architecture that uses Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) products that can be rapidly and effectively deployed as NFV infrastructure. By working closely together, Atos and its partners are helping to resolve integration challenges for "day 1" installations and to reduce the ongoing costs of maintaining a multi-vendor platform as new releases of hardware and software are made available.

The Atos NFV alliance will work with multiple Virtual Network Function (VNF) providers to understand and optimise network and business performance based on known and measured performance.

"As with cloud services five years ago, today we see a similar caution to accelerate the move to NFV and strongly believe we can successfully address our clients' concerns and accelerate their journey. Our aim is to support operator clients in making a seamless transition from traditional infrastructure to virtual infrastructure without loss of service, reputation or revenue.  We are proud to offer a virtual network function selection designed to help enable cost reduction and new revenues faster without compromising on downstream flexibility and choice" Paul Davey, CTO Global Telecoms Industry at Atos.

"Atos and its alliance partners bring together a broad range of capabilities to support a multi-vendor NFV solution, which is the sort of initiative that could resonate with operators.  These broad-based, well-integrated solutions are highly desirable on the path to nirvana - an open, fully interoperable, multi-vendor NFV environment." Comments Kris Szaniawski, Practice Leader, Service Provider Operations & IT, Ovum.