In collaboration with a leader of the telecommunications, DEK Technologies is working on a innovation project designed to experience the Open Platform for Network Function Virtualization (OPNVF) architecture.

DEK Technologies, due to its high skills on the virtual infrastructure management, addresses activities of study, prototyping and verification, with respect to the execution environment of the virtualization infrastructure designed to accommodate the Virtual Network Functions (VNF) owned by the TLC partner.

The Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV) is an open source project that supports NFV.

As open source project to accelerate the innovation based on a virtualization environment, it supports correlated NFV functions, such as fault management and performance, hardware configuration NFVI and management of virtualized resources that are needed for the NFV infrastructures.

The operators are pushing for the definition of a NFV Open Source platform.

The objective is to contribute, starting from the open source projects existing, to the realization of a reference platform for NFV transposing the requirements under definition in ETSI for the realization of “Carrier Grade” NFV functions.

The OPNFV project is focusing initially on the so commonly called “level of NFV infrastructure”. The ETSI NFV framework defines the two function blocks constituting the basis for allowing the distribution of applications running in a virtual environment:

• The Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVI) that provides access to basic computing resources, storage and network through the hypervisor.
• The Virtualization Infrastructure Manager (VIM) that manages the VNFI and provides the management capabilities for the deployment of applications running in a virtual environment, commonly referred to as VNFs.

OpenStack is a management system that abstracts the complexity of a heterogeneous data center making it easier for administrators to run large-scale applications on appropriate computing resources.