September 12, 2017
https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/amdocs-brings-nfv-software-package-based-onap/2017/09/
Amdocs announced its new NFV Powered by ONAP portfolio – a portfolio featuring modular capabilities that accelerate service design, virtualization and operating capabilities on demand.
Service providers using technologies developed in ONAP and its ecosystem of capabilities can provide enterprises the ability to design their own networks as part of a richer set of service features.
Amdoc?
Amdocs was initially involved with AT&T’s home-grown ECOMP platform as an integrator.(2016/07)
Powered by ONAP
- Commercial versoins of ONAP modules which are contributed by Amdocs
- Amdocs Service Design and Create module : automate service design
- Amdocs Active Inventory module : a unified live view of services
- Amdocs Orchestration module :
- Cloud-based hosted development environment to simplify ONAP distribution
- Deployed locally or in the public cloud.
- Packaged NFV use cases to speed introduction of virtual services like SD-WAN
From Amdocs NFV powered by ONAP slidesahre
Amdocs’ NFV Powered by ONAP software will be available later this year as well
Commericialized ONAP?
By offering a commercially hardened approach to the lifecycle management of virtual services, building on Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) , Amdocs wants to capitalize on the years of software development work its done with AT&T
from : Amdocs Claims ONAP First-Mover Status
“a more hardened version of ONAP within the construct of a kind of a larger service lifecycle management portfolio,”
Ann Hatchell - VP of Open Network Marketing at ONAP
Besides AT&T, Amdocs is also working with other service providers within ONAP. Hatchell mentioned Bell Canada and Orange, but she wouldn’t confirm them as customers of its NFV Powered by ONAP software.
Amdocs NFV Partner Ecosystem
For the services, Amdocs has created a partner ecosystem of vendors that provide more than 80 VNFs.
Avoid vendor lock-in
http://www.amdocsnfvpartners.com/partners.html
- vCPE
- vEPC - Affirmed, Connectem
- vIMS - Metaswitch, Sonus, Tango networks, Tropo(CISCO).
- vRAN - Altiostar, Asocsa
- Probes and Assurance - Accedian, Exfo, …
- NFV infrastructure - Cloudify, HP, Juniper, Mirantis, Openstack, Redhat, Ubuntu, Vmware, WindRver
- SDN - CISCO, ECI, HP, Juniper, nuage networks, vmware.
- Hardware - CISCO, Dell, ECI, EMC2, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Intel, Mellanox
Benefits of Amdocs Open Network Partner Program
Enable rapid VNF onboarding and fast TTM
Reduce hybrid (physical and virtual) complexity
Drive holistic NFV service lifecycle management
Foster innovation in NFV use cases
