Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 30 | Page 63

POWERED BY INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Software for Business Altran and Wind River launch end-to-end NFV platform ///////////////////////////// A 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 www.intelligentcio.com 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 INTELLIGENTCIO 63