GigaSpaces Showcases NFV Lab with Clearwater vIMS at Metaswitch ForumGigaSpaces Showcases NFV Lab with Clearwater vIMS at Metaswitch ForumMetaswitch customers can now leverage online learning lab to deploy and orchestrate Clearwater vIMS on demandSCOTTSDALE, Arizona, May 16, 2016 — GigaSpaces and Metaswitch are collaborating to launch an on-demand NFV Lab for networking engineers looking to familiarize themselves with the concepts and practical application of VNF deployment and orchestration. Even for experienced networking engineers at large telecoms, learning about NFV (network functions virtualization) can be a challenge. To address this gap in the market, GigaSpaces in cooperation with Metaswitch has developed the NFV Lab, which will be presented at the Metaswitch Forum event this week in Scottsdale, Arizona. The company is exhibiting in booth #33. GigaSpaces launched the NFV Lab during the OpenStack Summit last month. The NFV Lab delivers a faster, simpler and cheaper way to learn about NFV setup. It offers on-demand access to a dedicated learning lab configured with a private OpenStack environment, the Cloudify TOSCA-based orchestrator and the Clearwater open source vIMS virtualized network function. Credentialed users can gain access, begin learning in minutes, and orchestrate their first VNF deployment free of charge in the NFV Lab. Also at the Metaswitch Forum event, GigaSpaces will give an update on the recently launched project ARIA. The open source project offers an embeddable, lightweight library and CLI for NFV and hybrid cloud orchestration aimed at network providers who want to build out their own TOSCA-based VNFM and VNFO through a simple, free and open source library of orchestration tools based on the Cloudify project. “Operators of large networks need an easily accessible resource to help their engineers learn about NFV,” said Nati Shalom, CTO of GigaSpaces. “That’s what the NFV Lab is all about. In minutes, experienced network engineers can be working live in a dev/test ready environment, without the hassle, time and expense of setting up their own lab. It removes a huge barrier to learning.” “Project Clearwater is a great way for telecom operators to consume a vIMS that is open source, production ready and easily configurable,” said Martin Taylor, CTO of Metaswitch. “Working with GigaSpaces, we’ve made it possible through the NFV Lab for any network engineer to start learning quickly about how open source VNF orchestration can work for their telecom.” -- Fusion PR for GigaSpaces | |
