Announcing WhiteNFV Castelldefels, the Whitestack’s NFV Orchestration solution.
Whitestack announces the release of WhiteNFV Castelldefels, a commercial distribution of the ETSI Open Source MANO project, based on Release SEVEN. January 3, 2020: Whitestack is pleased to announce WhiteNFV Castelldefels, our supported distribution of Open Source MANO Release SEVEN, the NFV Orchestrator hosted by ETSI. WhiteNFV Castelldefels represents a major leap forward in NFV Orchestration, in particular for its […]
Cassini Packet Transponder field trial demonstrates multi-format transmission with multi-vendor, open packet optical network elements, at Telefónica del Perú
The field trial demonstrated long haul network operation and interoperability of coherent optics modules from different vendors with Cassini open packet optical switch, reaching 200 Gbps on a distance of 641 km between the cities of Lima and Trujillo in Peru. LIMA, Nov 11, 2019: Whitestack announced successful completion of the first field trial of Cassini, […]
Whitestack drives Field Trial in Peru for TIP’s Open Optical technology, Cassini
For the first time, Cassini will be tested on an existing DWDM network spanning more than 1000km. LIMA, October 14, 2019: Whitestack and several key players in the disaggregated optical transport space have arrived in Peru to initiate the first trial of Cassini, a 100 / 200 Gbps open optical transponder, on an existing line […]
José Miguel Guzmán, Whitestack Solutions Architect, elected member of the OSM Technical Steering Committee
José Miguel Guzmán received the highest support in the 1st round of voting, which allows Whitestack into the Open Source MANO Technical Steering Committee. Voting companies included Altran, ATOS, Canonical, Intel, Telefonica and VMWare. Sophia Antipolis (France), July 10th 2019: During the first round of the election of new members of the Open Source MANO’s […]
ETSI implemented their own reference NFV platform, with Whitestack’s Whitecloud
The ETSI 4th NFV Plugtests (the most important NFV interop event) were ran on ETSI’s own NFVI and VIM. Sophia Antipolis (France), June 7th 2019: A new edition of the NFV Plugtests, the most significant NFV (Network Function Virtualization) testing event has just finished, and this time, the NFV API Conformance Tests were executed on […]
Benjamin Diaz, Whitestack Cloud Developer, lauded as ETSI OSM’s “Outstanding Technical Contributor”
For the second time, Whitestack is awarded “Outstanding Technical Contributor”, this time during the OSM Release SIX cycle. Santa Clara, CA: Francisco Javier de Ramón (ETSI OSM Chairman) presented the “OSM Awards” for Release SIX, where Benjamín Díaz (Whitestack Cloud Developer) was honoured as Outstanding Technical Contributor for his work towards the upcoming release of OSM. Benjamín assumed new responsibilities […]
Whitestack presented the results of the 1st Multi-vendor NFV Showcase, during the Open Infrastructure Summit (Denver, USA)
The multi-vendor NFV Showcase is an effort to bring together a number of reputed vendors and organizations, to demonstrate that building production-ready multi-vendor networks is possible, within 4 weeks, on top of Open Technologies. Last March we decided to start an initiative to provide the industry with real multi-vendor Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) use cases, […]
Demonstrating NFV is possible: 1st Open Multi-Vendor NFV Showcase
The Open Multi-Vendor NFV Showcase is an effort to increase adoption of horizontal Network Function Virtualization based on its original principles of “leveraging standard IT virtualisation technology to consolidate many network equipment types onto industry standard high volume servers, switches and storage” Today, open source MANO components like OpenStack and OSM, high-performance NFVI, increasingly relevant standards from ETSI […]
Whitestack nominated for the for Openstack Superuser Awards
Who do you think should win the Superuser Award for the Open Infrastructure Summit Denver? Whitestack has been nominated one of the four global stellar candidates for receiving the #Openstack SuperUser award!!!, due to our work to promote the adoption of hyper-scalable cloud computing in emerging markets. The Superuser Awards recognize teams using OpenStack to […]
Why it’s time to get serious about NFV
The direction should be set by open-source projects like Open Source MANO and ONAP for a future of “horizontal” deployments, says Whitestack’s Gianpietro Lavado. Over the years, the term network functions virtualization may have deviated a little bit from its original definition. This post tries to get back to basics and to start a discussion […]