Expanded collaboration aimed at meeting growing communications
service provider needs for OpenStack-powered cloud platforms
RALEIGH, N.C. & TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, and NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701), a leading provider of
innovative IT, network and communications products and solutions, today
announced a collaboration to jointly develop network functions
virtualization (NFV) features in OpenStack in order to deliver
carrier-grade NFV solutions with Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack
Platform.
As communication service providers (CSPs) transform their businesses and
modernize both their infrastructure and offerings, NFV enables them to
deliver customer-facing services more easily and faster, with increased
demand capacity. NEC's NFV capabilities integrated with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform, a highly scalable
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution, are designed to enable CSPs
to successfully implement these modernization plans.
NEC and Red Hat have collaborated for more than a decade on joint open
source software development. In recent years, the companies have focused
their efforts on NFV system integration with OpenStack, leveraging NEC's
extensive knowledge of telecom networks. This enables the acceleration
of NFV features in OpenStack and the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)
in order to achieve carrier-grade and carrier-scale systems, including
data plane acceleration through the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK).
Moreover, these efforts are being contributed to the upstream OpenStack
community, to enable Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform to
emerge as a leading cloud platform for NFV. Several of the NFV features
resulting directly from this collaboration were included in the
OpenStack Juno release, or are planned for the forthcoming OpenStack
Kilo release.
Now, Red Hat and NEC aim to deliver a reliable, open, and scalable cloud
platform for CSPs based on OpenStack, helping them to take advantage of
NFV's full potential. NEC's NFV system integrated with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform will be designed to deliver mobile
packet core virtualization, also known as virtualized Evolved Packet
Core, or vEPC, as well as virtual Customer Premises Equipment (vCPE).
NEC and Red Hat plan to continue the expanded collaboration to integrate
and optimize Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and NFV, along
with contributions to open source communities, including OpenStack and
Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV).
Supporting Quotes
Tim Yeaton, senior vice president, Infrastructure Business Group, Red
Hat
"NFV offers tremendous potential to transform the telecommunications
industry and radically change the way CSPs deliver solutions to their
customers. NEC has long appreciated the power of ‘open', and has always
been an excellent partner. Through this expanded collaboration, Red Hat
is excited to help meet CSP interest in NFV and open source cloud
platforms - and more specifically, OpenStack, as they look for solutions
to drive costs down and deliver new high value offerings."
Atsuo Kawamura, senior vice president, NEC Corporation
"Through our long-term and continued collaboration with Red Hat, we are
working to build an open industry standard which has enormous potential
for expanding awareness and adoption of NFV. NEC, as a top 10 OpenStack
contributor and a proven network vendor, aims to continue collaborating
with Red Hat to drive innovation in the telecom industry through open
source. NEC has commercially delivered SDN/NFV solutions, including vEPC
and vCPE, and will continue driving innovation with broader virtualized
network functions that promote greater agility, stability and security
of services as well as new revenue creation while enabling a wide range
of customers to significantly reduce the total cost of ownership."
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company's experience and global resources, NEC's advanced technologies
meet the complex and ever-changing needs of its customers. NEC brings
more than 100 years of expertise in technological innovation to empower
people, businesses and society. For more information, visit NEC at http://www.nec.com.
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