Samsung, HPE Partner To Accelerate Carriers' Transformation To Telco Cloud

(RTTNews) - Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced a partnership that will provide carriers with integrated network functions virtualization or NFV infrastructure and virtual network functions or VNF solutions.

Samsung joins the HPE OpenNFV Partner Program as a carrier-grade network equipment provider. The program is a broad ecosystem of NFV technology, application and service partners that have tested and validated solutions on ETSI-compliant HPE OpenNFV infrastructure. This approach to NFV is built around adherence to openness and standards, allowing other telco ecosystem partners to introduce new innovations on top of the HPE OpenNFV platform.

Samsung will take the lead in providing carrier-grade VNFs for mobile networks, such as virtualized EPC (vMME, vGW), virtualized IMS (vCSCF, vTAS, vPTT-AS, etc.), including VNF manager. HPE will enable communications service providers (CSPs) to bridge from their current infrastructure to NFV by providing the HPE OpenNFV platform and NFV management and orchestration (MANO) solutions.

The partnership also includes a joint go-to-market strategy with ready-to-install third party solutions. CSPs can choose from various third party offerings, already verified by the HPE OpenNFV Partner Program, such as virtual private-LTE network service, vCPE and SD-WAN.