Orange and Red Hat Join Forces to Spearhead Network Virtualization Innovation
Orange and Red Hat collaborate to fuel technology innovation within
community projects; Orange uses Red Hat OpenStack Platform to drive
network transformation
SYDNEY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
OpenStack Summit 2017 – Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's
leading provider of open source solutions, today announced it is
collaborating with Orange, a major multinational telecom operator, to
build a modern infrastructure for an agile, responsive network aimed at
bringing innovations to customers more quickly and scaling out services
dynamically. They are collaborating in open source community projects to
accelerate technology innovation in network virtualization, while Orange
is using Red Hat OpenStack Platform for its network functions
virtualization infrastructure (NFVi) deployments.
Orange is collaborating with Red Hat as part of a joint engineering
program to deliver additional features supporting NFV into OpenStack and
other open source communities. The intent of the program is to better
address the specific needs of communications service providers and their
networks when developing technologies. This community collaboration
recently led to the integration of the OpenStack BGP VPN project and its
reference implementation (BaGPipe), with Orange as a lead contributor.
This BGP VPN project aims at letting telecom operators mutually
interconnect Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) or NFV datacenters and
businesses, using industry-standard routing technologies.
Orange is embracing NFV as part of its network transformation strategy,
aiming to benefit from greater agility that can be enabled by decoupling
its software layer from the hardware stack. To do so, Orange is using
Red Hat OpenStack Platform, for its multinational NFV deployment of
massively-scalable and agile cloud IaaS, enabling better integration of
virtual network functions (VNFs) from a range of vendors.
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Darrell Jordan-Smith, vice president, Global Information and
Communications Technology, Red Hat
“Orange is embracing a role
as a modern open communications provider, not only by deploying a fully
open technology platform with Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat
Ceph Storage but also by adding its expertise to community development
efforts. We’re very pleased that our technologies power Orange’s
standardized NFVi platform and we’re excited to continue our
collaboration in open source initiatives, aimed at delivering new
business value to the industry.”
Christian Gacon, vice president, Wireline Networks and
Infrastructure, Orange
“We are keen to spearhead development
for technology platforms that can power our future networks, like
OpenStack, and are teaming closely with Red Hat to drive innovation in
open communities to help shape them in line with real-world
requirements. Red Hat, as an open source solutions leader, is then able
to seek to bring that innovation to production-ready fruition in its Red
Hat OpenStack Platform. Our joint work on the BGP VPN project is a great
example of an important piece of networking technology that we are
enhancing for modern communications, as the industry strives towards
more dynamic, agile and self-adaptive networks. As we work on an
industrial roll out of NFVi, we are confident that standardizing on open
source can bring interoperability to the ecosystem for large, scalable
cloud environments. We recognize Red Hat as a valuable partner to enable
us to onboard VNFs from a variety of different vendors.”
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