Voice over IP provider Cirpack has joined the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) to help develop industry specifications for NFV.
Cirpack said it had joined ETSI’s NFV Industry Specifications Group (ISG) in order to help facilitate the deployment, configuration and maintenance of virtualised network architecture for Phase 2 of the group’s NFV project.
Specifically, Cirpack said it wanted to help define virtualised solution models around orchestration, interfacing and interoperability.
Cirpack said it placed a particularly high importance on developing flexible and high-performance solutions that would help operators deal with increasing data traffic and “the new expectations of end customers.”
Kim I, Products Marketing Manager at Cirpack, said: ”There is no longer any doubt about the massive adoption of NFV architecture, given its benefits for both our operator customers and for CSPs.”
CEO Patrick Bergougnou said that working more closely toward the definition of NFV network technologies would help communications service providers in their effort to quickly deploy new offerings at lower operational cost.
In January, ETSI published 11 specifications relating to network functions virtualisation, covering architectural frameworks and outlines of the compute, hypervisor and network domains within the infrastructure. It also revealed it had begun work on specifications for millimetre wave transmission technology.
ETSI is currently working with the Small Cell Forum on a project exploring the virtualisation of small cells.
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