Industry’s leading NFV Interoperability Test results confirm ADTRAN’s
integral role in moving NFV from hype to reality
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun. 8, 2016--
ADTRAN®,
Inc., (NASDAQ:ADTN), a leading provider of next-generation open
networking solutions, announced that it has successfully demonstrated
the industry’s first open and multi-vendor virtual Customer Premise
Equipment (vCPE) during the New IP Agency’s (NIA) Interoperability
Showcase, and again as part of the interoperability event at Light
Reading’s Big Communications Event. As the market moves toward adopting
the new, flexible and open software-defined access framework for
networking, demonstrating the ability to move beyond theoretical with a
fully functional vCPE solution is a leap forward for the industry, our
customers and ADTRAN.
EANTC provided the carrier class test bed for the NIA’s Interoperability
Showcase and was designed to address Service Function Chaining. 12
vendors participated in the event and together achieved six multi-vendor
combinations of orchestrated service function chains (SFCs) on a range
of NFV infrastructure (NFVI) solutions. During the testing, vendors that
were able to participate successfully interoperated to create advanced
vCPE combinations with virtualized firewalls, deep packet inspection
filters and other add-on VNFs. Specific details can be found in EANTC’s report
on the NIA Website.
“The test plan took into account references from the ETSI as well as the
IETF and was rigorously reviewed by NIA service provider members. We
were ultimately able to create eight test cases focused on two
verticals: Network Service Orchestration and Service Function Chaining,”
said Carsten Rossenhovel, managing director, EANTC. “It is no secret
that network virtualization and service orchestration are still taking
shape and face many interoperability challenges. ADTRAN solutions
participated in this Interoperability Showcase with great success,
confirming that ADTRAN is on the forefront of productizing an open,
carrier-grade software-defined access solution.”
The scope of the test was focused on the interoperability of vCPE
life-cycle management with orchestration functions and interoperability
of the virtual network functions with the NFV infrastructure.
Configurations tested that ADTRAN’s vCPE completed successfully include:
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Point-to-Point Connectivity where two sites ran similar vCPE functions
configured for an IPv4 connection.
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Static Bandwidth Provisioning to show how a virtual infrastructure
should handle shared resources, in the test case, bandwidth control
and QoS.
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Dynamic Bandwidth Provisioning to show how service providers can
manage bandwidth on demand plans, in the test case, provisioning a
dual bandwidth profile that starts with 10 Mbit/s and automatically
extends to 20Mbit/s when bandwidth thresholds are exceeded. During
this test, ADTRAN demonstrated a scripted configuration that enabled
the vCPE configuration to change on the fly.
In addition, the NIA Showcase Interoperability tested Service Function
Chaining to show how SDN/NFV change the dynamics of the traditional
networking paradigm and simplify the deployment of network services at
the customer premise. During the testing, ADTRAN’s vCPE successfully
completed both testing scenarios: Static Forwarding Graph and Flow-Based
Forwarding Graph.
“ADTRAN is committed to defining the future network for its carrier
customers with open, scalable solutions and standards as they look to
navigate today’s globally interconnected marketplace and best serve
their business and residential customers,” said Chris Thompson,
director, customer devices portfolio, ADTRAN. “Having the industry’s
first viable vCPE solution validated as part of EANTC’s rigorous testing
underscores our dedication to our customers to help them realize their
vision of the software-defined access network.”
About EANTC
EANTC (European Advanced Networking Test Center) is internationally
recognized as one of the world's leading independent test centers for
telecommunication technologies. Based in Berlin, Germany, the company
offers vendor-neutral consultancy and realistic, reproducible
high-quality testing services since 1991. Customers include leading
network equipment manufacturers, tier-1 service providers, large
enterprises and governments worldwide. EANTC's proof of concept,
acceptance tests and network audits cover established and
next-generation fixed and mobile network technologies. http://www.eantc.com
About NIA
The New IP Agency (NIA) is a not-for-profit independent initiative
providing information, education, analysis, community services and
testing to support and accelerate the development of a global economy
based on open, advanced, virtualized IP networks.
About ADTRAN
ADTRAN, Inc. is a leading global provider of networking and
communications equipment. ADTRAN’s products enable voice, data, video
and Internet communications across a variety of network infrastructures.
ADTRAN solutions are currently in use by service providers, private
enterprises, government organizations, and millions of individual users
worldwide. For more information, please visit www.adtran.com.
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