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The Open Network Automation Platform Project has come out with its first deliverable since it was created by the merger of ECOMP and the Open Orchestrator Project, or OPEN-O. That deliverable is a platform called Amsterdam that provides a unified architecture for service automation and orchestration.

“Amsterdam represents significant progress for both the ONAP community and the greater open source networking ecosystem at large,” said Arpit Joshipura, general manager for networking and orchestration at The Linux Foundation, the parent organization of ONAP. “By bringing together member resources, Amsterdam is the first step toward realization of a globally shared architecture and implementation for network automation, based on open source and open standards. It’s exciting to see a new era of industry collaboration and architectural convergence – via a healthy, rapidly diversifying ecosystem – begin to take shape with the release of ONAP Amsterdam.”

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AT&T is keen on taking advantage of ONAP’s new Amsterdam release, saying it will give the telco several new benefits to streamline service creation and delivery for its wireline and wireless customers.

Having previously developed the ECOMP platform, which it contributed to the OpenSource community to form ONAP, AT&T is keen on taking advantage of Amsterdam for its own network evolution to software.

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The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) has announced the availability of its first platform release, called Amsterdam, which delivers a unified architecture for end-to-end, closed-loop network automation. The open source code is hosted by the Linux Foundation, which views Amsterdam as the first step toward the realisation of a globally-shared architecture and implementation for network automation, based on open source and open standards.

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The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) community recently announced the availability of its first platform release, ONAP “Amsterdam.” This release delivers a unified architecture for end-to-end, closed-loop network automation and creates a premise for service automation and orchestration.

As a platinum founding member fully engaged in the ONAP community, Huawei actively invested a great deal of resources in technical architecture, code contribution, and system integration, while working with industry partners for operational transformation and the accelerated construction of an open source ecosystem.

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The Open Network Automation Platform, a Linux Foundation project, has released ONAP Amsterdam, an open-source platform to enable network automation for carriers and service providers.

ONAP Amsterdam includes open-source software for orchestration and automation, as well as verified blueprints for two use cases. Carriers and service providers can download and deploy Amsterdam to automate their networks. Integrators and vendors can also build products and services around Amsterdam.

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Such is the mind-boggling complexity of virtualizing and automating networks that open source collaboration is widely considered to be the most effective way of doing so in an interoperable way. ONAP claims this is the first open source project to unite the majority of operators with the majority of vendors in building an automation and orchestration platform. Apparently ONAP’s members account for 55% of the world’s mobile subscribers.

“Amsterdam represents significant progress for both the ONAP community and the greater open source networking ecosystem at large,” said Arpit Joshipura, GM of Networking and Orchestration at The Linux Foundation, which runs ONAP. “By bringing together member resources, Amsterdam is the first step toward realization of a globally shared architecture and implementation for network automation, based on open source and open standards.”

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The Amsterdam release of the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) combines software-defined networking (SDN) technologies, which were originally developed by AT&T and The Linux Foundation, to provide a next-generation services framework that can now be deployed on top of any hypervisor environment or public cloud computing service. Previously, ONAP has only supported OpenStack.

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The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) announced the release of ONAP Amsterdam, a unified architecture for closed-loop, end-to-end network automation. The purpose of the platform is to decrease costs​ ​and​ ​time​ ​for​ ​virtual network functions (VNF) vendors, enabling operators to optimize their best selection of commercial VNF offerings for each of their services, according to the release.

ONAP is an open source community that focuses on the lifecycle management of VNFs. The group is a joint effort of AT&T’s Open ECOMP and the Linux Foundation’s Open-O working to harmonize the open source network automation space. Since the two groups teamed up, ONAP has grown to encompass 58 members.

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The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Project has unveiled its first platform release, ONAP Amsterdam, to help service providers with ongoing efforts to virtualize their networks.

Amsterdam aims to deliver a unified architecture for end-to-end, closed-loop network automation, according to the group.

Providing a new service delivery lifecycle for teleco, cable, and cloud providers, ONAP said it’s the first open-source project to bring together the majority of operators (end users) with the majority of vendors (integrators) to build a real service automation and orchestration platform.

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