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Altran and Wind River launch
end-to-end NFV platform
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ltran, a global leader in Engineering
and R&D services, has announced
it is using Wind River Titanium
Cloud to develop an end-to-end network
functions virtualization (NFV) solution. By
incorporating NFV in the data centre and at
the network edge, Altran and Wind River can
empower telecom operators at lower costs,
accelerate service delivery and ensure high
availability to exceed customer expectation.
Titanium Cloud is a commercial-ready NFV
infrastructure software platform that enables
service providers to deploy virtualised
services faster, at lower cost, and with the
high reliability that the industry demands.
Through the collaboration, Altran’s VNF
Management and Orchestration Platform
provides an environment for vendors to
deploy virtual network functions (VNFs)
running on Wind River infrastructure
software. Altran’s programmable VNF
Lifecycle Management capabilities can
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integrate with any VNF, and it also integrates
with third-party orchestrators, such as ONAP.
Additionally, its policy engine correlates key
performance indicators (KPIs) from VNFs
and VIMs to perform policy actions across
data center and edge locations.
“The Wind River Titanium Cloud ecosystem
provides outstanding infrastructure for highly
available, robust and agile virtualisation
platforms needed in telecommunications
networks and industrial control,” said N.
Mohan Rangan, Group SVP and Chief
Engineering Officer at Altran North America.
“We are delighted to be a part of Wind
River’s initiative. Service provider customers
will benefit greatly from a comprehensive
NFV platform that handles a wide variety of
sophisticated VNFs.”
A recent Dell’Oro Group report found that
NFV and related cloud computing-native
technologies are laying the groundwork for
future 5G services by providing necessary
network resilience and agility. Furthermore,
virtualisation is an essential component
for edge computing in next-generation
communications networks, especially for
the virtual partitioning of the mobile radio
access network (RAN).
“By validating and pre-integrating their
offerings with Titanium Cloud, our ecosystem
partners can deliver optimised solutions
that are ready for deployment in live
networks,” said Paul Miller, Vice President for
Telecommunications at Wind River.
“Service providers and equipment vendors
can use this platform to easily deploy
and manage virtualised workloads.
Altran’s MANO solution, combined with
Titanium Cloud, provides flexible plugins
to work in multi-vendor environments and
programmable interfaces to work with VNFs
across technology domains.” n
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