Paris, Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Orange laboratories deliver interoperability performance and service testing platform for the new OPNFV Brahmaputra release

Orange today announces that its two OPNFV testing platforms in France - which are part of the OPNFV Pharos Community Labs project - are being used to perform interoperability and service tests for the latest OPNFV release, Brahmaputra, which launched on the 1st March [1]. The results from these tests are being incorporated into the ongoing integration framework for Brahmaputra.

OPNFV Brahmaputra includes functional testing and installer support for an extension of the network component of OpenStack. It integrates a new feature, allowing interconnections between Virtual Network Functions (NFV) and Virtual Private Networks via a programming interface. The initial work, which was kick-started by Orange, has been leveraged within the OPNFV open source project and acted as a catalyst to foster additional contributions.

Located in Paris and Lannion, Orange laboratories launched in July 2015 and are available to manufacturers and OPNFV contributors looking to test technical components that make up a robust open source NFV infrastructure that is both open and interoperable.

Orange is actively contributing to the creation of an ecosystem that will encourage the emergence of mature and interoperable solutions through its heavy involvement in standardisation bodies and open source projects that develop the necessary NFV components. This active contribution is part of the global involvement of Orange in the transformation towards on-demand networks, leveraging NFV and software-defined networking (SDN) technologies to meet evolving customer promises.

“With our partners, we are contributing to the key OPNFV open source project, which aims to jointly build a telco-grade reference implementation platform. With interoperability and openness at the core of our strategy, this platform will be an important milestone in turning the NFV promise into a reality. We have been inspired by the success of the second OPNFV release, Brahmaputra, and look forward to integrating this open source NFV infrastructure in our On-Demand Networks programme,” said Alain Maloberti, Senior Vice President, Orange Labs Networks.