Orange and Red Hat Join Forces to Spearhead Network Virtualization Innovation
November 07 2017 - 2:00PM
Business Wire
Orange and Red Hat collaborate to fuel
technology innovation within community projects; Orange uses Red
Hat OpenStack Platform to drive network transformation
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.
Supporting Quotes
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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