Whitestack awarded ETSI OSM Outstanding Technical Contributor
During the last ETSI OSM plenary, our Gianpietro Lavado was awarded “Outstanding Technical Contributor” for his contributions during OSM Release FOUR. The Open Source Mano project is an initiative aimed to create an Open Source implementaton of the MANO (Management ANd Orchestration) stack, as defined by the ETSI NFV ISG. It is a unique initiative in the Telecommunications industry, where […]
Network Function Virtualization test results: Management and Orchestration solutions
Whitestack’s Gianpietro Lavado reports that MANO solutions also passed recent tests by global experts. In the first post of this series, I shared a short introduction to NFV and its importance, as well as a summary about ETSI’s second NFV Plugtests. In the second post I shared the overall results of the tests and some […]
Standards tests show that network functions virtualization has VIM
Some 95 percent of the 189 interoperability test sessions were successful, reports Gianpietro Lavado, a network solutions architect at Whitestack. In the first post of this series, I shared a summary about the week I spent in France as part of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute‘s (ETSI) second edition of NFV Plugtests. Now that the official […]
Getting Network Function Virtualization ready for prime time: Inside the standards tests
Whitestack’s Gianpietro Lavado reports on the latest series of tests held by global experts. Network Function Virtualization (NFV) aims to virtualize over generic servers the network functions that typically run in dedicated appliances, so that they acquire all the advantages of cloud applications — almost a must for today’s applications like 5G. Since its conception […]