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Mirantis Launches Individualized VNF Certification Program Based on Validated Reference Architectures for Telcos
May 21, 2018
By Dave Van Everen
New approach tackles the complex realities of actual customer NFV infrastructure and customer-specific business objectives
OPENSTACK SUMMIT, VANCOUVER, Canada – May 21, 2018 – Today at the OpenStack Summit, Mirantis announced a new VNF certification program that centers around providing communication service providers (CSPs) with validated solutions on Mirantis Cloud Platform that can be more readily deployed by CSPs for production services.
The program has been developed with VNF partners and carriers to deliver a more tailored, customer-specific validation matching customers’ specific business objectives to their NFV infrastructure (NFVI).
To date, most OpenStack VNF certification programs simply focus on demonstrating that a VNF can be on-boarded within a lab environment without addressing any of the carrier’s requirements for production deployments. Because all NFVI environments differ customer to customer, Mirantis has upgraded their certification program to create a far more individualized VNF validation program which consists of a 3-way effort between Mirantis, telco customers and VNF vendors.
The outcome is a validated reference architecture that addresses customers’ specific throughput and latency goals, network chaining architectures, physical network and compute infrastructure targeted to particular business use cases.
“Over the years, we certified dozens of VNFs, but as customers started on-boarding some of those ‘certified VNFs,’ we realized they needed individualized verification,” said Adrian Ionel, co-founder and CEO, Mirantis. “So, we are evolving our generic VNF certification program in favor of a VNF validation approach that tests VNFs against the actual customer NFVI, taking into account customer-specific business objectives.”
The Mirantis VNF Validation process leverages the DriveTrain lifecycle management toolchain inside Mirantis Cloud Platform to provide the industry’s most customer-tailored, customizable and repeatable approach to validating cloud deployments. The process:
Identifies and assesses the best VNF for the business needs
Provides an automated and repeatable test and validation process
Performs the required tests as often as necessary
Supports a dynamic, agile and repeatable deployment environment
Provides clear reporting and data at all stages of the program
Prepares VNFs for consumption by production orchestration solutions
Metaswitch’s Perimeta, the market leading virtualized Session Border Controller (vSBC), is one of the first solutions to be validated within Mirantis’ VNF reference architectures.
“As a leader in virtualized, cloud native communication software, Metaswitch was pleased to validate our VNFs on the MCP reference architecture for OpenStack,” said Mark Price, VP Ecosystem Solutions Development, Metaswitch. “This approach simplifies the deployment and verification of our vSBC on OpenStack and provides recommended default configurations for interconnect solutions.”
A complete description of the process can be found here.
About Mirantis
Mirantis helps organizations simplify operations, reduce complexity, and accelerate innovation by providing open-source solutions for delivering and managing modern distributed applications at scale. The company enables platform engineering teams to build and operate secure, scalable, and customizable developer platforms across any environment—on-premises, public cloud, hybrid, or edge. As AI-driven workloads become a core component of modern architectures, Mirantis provides the automation, multi-cloud orchestration, and infrastructure flexibility required to support high-performance AI, machine learning, and data-intensive applications. Committed to open standards and avoiding vendor lock-in, Mirantis empowers organizations to deploy and operate infrastructure and services on their terms.
Mirantis serves many of the world’s leading enterprises, including Adobe, Ericsson, Inmarsat, PayPal, and Societe Generale. Learn more at www.mirantis.com.