Enea top five contributor to the OPNFV project
Enabling architectural choice in the NFV community
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, February 1, 2017 – Enea® (NASDAQ OMX Nordic:ENEA) steps forward as a top contributor to the industry collaboration project OPNFV. In the latest OPNFV quarterly report on community activities, Enea is ranked as the fifth most active company and an Enea engineer is ranked as the third most active individual contributor. Overall, the report shows an active and productive community driving the enablement of NFV in large enterprise and telecom networks.
OPNFV is emerging as a de facto standard for NFV in the telecom industry, with several of the world’s largest operators and equipment manufacturers as active project members. As one of the leading contributors, Enea takes an active part in transforming networks to enable virtualization of network functions with all the advantages it brings, including accelerated innovation and service deployment, reduced costs and increased flexibility and agility.
Many of Enea’s contributions to OPNFV has centered on the ARM Band project which adds support for the ARM architecture. Multi-architecture support will offer architectural choice with greater flexibility to ensure a “best fit” for performance, cost and power consumption. Enea is a founding participant of the ARM Band project, which was awarded with the OPNFV Directors Award in 2016.
The full report can be accessed here: https://wiki.opnfv.org/display/DEV/Quarterly+Reports
About OPNFV and ARM Band
OPNFV is an open source project aiming to provide an integrated and tested reference platform for Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVI) and Virtualized Infrastructure Management (VIM). It integrates upstream projects and performs testing to ensure it is fit for its purpose.
The ARM Band project migrates OPNFV to the ARM architecture by integrating and testing components on ARM-based servers. The goal is to provide multi-architecture support in OPNFV by making it available on x86 as well as ARM servers. It is an official part of the latest OPNFV release, Colorado.
Contact:
Fredrik Medin, SVP Marketing and Communications
Phone: +46 709 71 40 11
E-mail: fredrik.medin@enea.com
About Enea
Enea is a global supplier of network software platforms and world class services, with a vision of helping customers develop amazing functions in a connected society. We are committed to working together with customers and leading hardware vendors as a key contributor in the open source community, developing and hardening optimal software solutions. Every day, more than three billion people around the globe rely on our technologies in a wide range of applications in multiple verticals – from Telecom and Automotive, to Medical and Avionics. We have offices in Europe, North America and Asia, and are listed on NASDAQ OMX Nordic Exchange Stockholm AB. Discover more at www.enea.com and start a conversation at info@enea.com.
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