Italtel is among the participants with its NetMatch-S CI as Virtual Network Function
ETSI will organize the first Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) interoperability Plugtests® event from 23 January to 3 February 2017. This event is hosted by 5TONIC Laboratory with the technical support of Telefonica and will take place in Leganes, Madrid, Spain. This important event comes hot on the heels of the publication of the ETSI NFV Release 2 specifications and the announcement of ETSI Open Source MANO Release ONE in October 2016.
This first NFV Plugtests event is ambitious. A pre-testing and remote integration phase was already launched in November 2016. 29 remote labs were connected to the ETSI Plugtests network to verify interconnection between the different Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs), Management and Orchestration (MANO) solutions and NFV platforms participating in the Plugtests. During the two-week intense testing phase, interoperability tests will focus on validating ETSI NFV Release 2 end-to-end capabilities including management of descriptors and software images, as well as life cycle management of network services and virtual network functions.
Italtel is proud to be part of this initiative that represents a unique opportunity to stimulate synergy and alignment across the NFV ecosystem. We will carry out the interoperability tests on our session border controller NetMatch-S Cloud Inside as a Virtual Network Function. Our goal is to receive important feedbacks from the experimentation and establish new partnerships in the ecosystem, extending the already existing ones. Besides, we can identify possible gaps in the standardization area and suggest how to address them in the ETSI NFV ISG and in other standardization groups.
The test plan development has been driven by ETSI’s Center for Testing and Interoperability, building on the methodology defined by the ETSI NFV testing working group. The overall results and lessons learnt will be fed back to ETSI NFV Industry Specification Group.
Over 40 commercial and open source implementations will be tested for interoperability, including 20 virtual network functions, 10 management and orchestration solutions and 10 NFV platforms. Over 140 people have prepared this two-week event, forming an engaged and diverse community.
The list of participants at this event includes: A10 Networks, ADVA Optical Networking, Anritsu A/S, Canonical USA Inc., Cisco Systems, EANTC, Ericsson, F5 Networks, Fortinet, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Huawei, Italtel, Ixia, Keynetic Technologies, Lenovo, Mahindra Comviva, Netrounds, Openet, Palo Alto Networks, Radware, Red Hat, RIFT.io, Sandvine, Sonus Networks, Spirent, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), VMware and Wind River.
