Skip to main content
Category

In The News

Light Reading: Monetizing ONAP, the Amdocs Way

By In The News

As the debate about how ONAP (Open Network Automation Platform) might be interpreted and used by network operators, Amdocs is providing an early example of ONAP in action and showing how it plans to generate revenues from the open source development. (See ONAP Takes Flak as Telcos Prep for Release 1 and ONAP Strikes Back, Saying Critics Are Misinformed.)

Amdocs has been involved in ONAP since its genesis as ECOMP (Enhanced Control, Orchestration, Management and Policy), the orchestration and network management platform developed at AT&T. (Amdocs was a key vendor partner in that process.)

Read more at Light Reading. 

SDxCentral: AT&T Makes its SD-WAN ‘Dynamic’

By In The News

ORLANDO, Florida – At this week’s MEF17 event in Orlando, Fla., Josh Goodell, vice president for intelligent edge at AT&T, said the carrier was set to launch a dynamic version of its software-defined wide-area networking (SD-WAN) product. The platform would be network based and become available early next year.

Goodell said that the carrier’s current over-the-top (OTT) SD-WAN offering, based on VeloCloud’s technology, can dynamically route traffic across multiple carrier links. The carrier’s currently counts around 100,000 SD-WAN deployments under an internally-derived static configuration.

See more at SDxCentral. 

FierceTelecom: Linux Foundation’s Joshipura says ONAP is now the de facto open networking platform

By In The News

ORLANDO–Since ECOMP and Open O merged earlier this year to create Open Networking Automation Platform (ONAP), the Linux Foundation is seeing membership and interest continue to accelerate to automate more network functions via SDN and NFV.

Arpit Joshipura, general manager of networking and orchestration for The Linux Foundation, told attendees during this year’s MEF 17 event that ONAP has become widely accepted.
Read more at FierceTelecom.

SDxCentral: AT&T, Orange, and Partners Shrink the World Using MEF LSO, ONAP

By In The News

ORLANDO, Fla. — AT&TOrange, and a handful of technology partners are attempting to shrink the world by using inter-provider application programming interfaces (APIs) to provision Ethernet services. The companies demonstrated a proof of concept of this at this week’s MEF17 event.

Tapping into the MEF’s recently released Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) Sonata software development kit (SDK), the demonstration showed an automated, real-time ordering, and provisioning of the software-defined networking (SDN)-based services across AT&T’s network and Orange’s network. This involved the interaction of both operators’ SDN architectures.

Read more at SDxCentral.

SDxCentral: AT&T’s Fuetsch Hints at Upcoming White Box and ONAP Plans

By In The News

DALLAS – AT&T plans to provide more details in the coming weeks on its white box and ONAP plans that are part of its broader network virtualization initiative.

Speaking at the recent AT&T Business Summit in Dallas, Andre Fuetsch, CTO and president of AT&T Labs, hinted that the company would soon be updating its white-box strategy. Fuetsch said AT&T’s plans would provide the carrier with increased agility and cost efficiency.

Read more at SDxCentral.

SDxCentral: AT&T Wields Disproportionate Influence in ONAP, But Everyone’s OK With It

By In The News

The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) open source group is presumably putting the finishing touches on its first code release — Amsterdam. The group has said it will release Amsterdam before the end of the year. The inaugural release will integrate the original Open-O and ECOMP code bases into a common orchestration platform.

We wondered how the integration was going and, specifically, whether AT&T was working collaboratively within the project.

Read more at SDxCentral.

Light Reading: ONAP Strikes Back, Saying Critics Are Misinformed

By In The News

It’s been a rough week for ONAP, public relations-wise.

First my colleague Iain Morris reported on something of a groundswell of negativity about the open source MANO project, much of it generated at Light Reading’s “OSS in the Era of SDN & NFV” event in London last week. Then veteran industry analyst Tom Nolle, president of CIMI Corp. , added his voice in a blog post , saying the LR news analysis didn’t go far enough in assessing basic faults in Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) ‘s approach. (See ONAP Takes Flak as Telcos Prep for Release 1.)

Arpit Joshipura, general manager of Networking & Orchestration for the Linux Foundation , which hosts ONAP, is well aware of what’s being said, but comments in an interview that the criticisms are coming from people who lack in-depth familiarity with ONAP and the contents of its upcoming first software release, Amsterdam, due out by year’s end.

 

Read more at Light Reading.

Huffington Post: Politics Is Disconnected From Coming Changes to Our Connected World

By In The News

Washington politics has been stuck in a cul-de-sac of debates over health care, immigration and taxes for years. Meanwhile the tools and networks that power our economy and connect our lives are changing rapidly and politicians are oblivious. The next generation of wireless networks – 5G – is rapidly coming into focus, and Americans need to pay attention to take advantage.

Every new generation of wireless communications has been marked by faster speeds. Next-generation 5G networks, however, will have to do much more, much faster and with better quality. Think of it as a three dimensional expansion rather than just two. Network operators must make this transition in order to power the billions of devices in the Internet of Things (IoT). That’s the focus of a conversation that I’ll be having with the Linux Foundation and Jet Ventures at an Internet Innovation Alliance event in San Francisco tomorrow.

Most people have never heard of ONAP, but the Open Network Automation Platform is an important part of the answer.

Read more at the Huffington Post.

SDxCentral: AT&T Tackles Artificial Intelligence with open Source Acumos Project

By In The News

DALLAS – AT&T and Tech Mahindra are developing an open source artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning platform that will be hosted within the Linux Foundation. The Acumos Project is expected to be launched early next year.

The project is designed to provide a common framework and platform to assist in the building and managing of AI platforms. The Acumos Project will also allow developers to connect individual applications to create AI and machine learning products.

Read more at SDxCentral.