The OPNFV Project has announced the availability of OPNFV Arno, the community’s first software release.
Arno is aimed at anyone who is exploring NFV deployments, developing Virtual Network Functions (VNF) applications, or interested in NFV performance and use case-based testing.
This developer-focused release provides an initial build of the NFV Infrastructure and Virtual Infrastructure Manager components of ETSI NFV architecture.
In the eight months since launching, OPNFV has brought together more than 100 developers from network operators, solution providers and vendors who are collaborating to build the foundation for a flexible open source NFV platform by integrating and testing components from relevant upstream projects.
The OPNFV community has quickly formed and built processes to work on 2 projects that span the range of requirements needed to build NFV solutions.
The work is supported by 57 member companies who bring diverse perspectives and capabilities for addressing the industry’s need for a standard, open approach to deploying NFV platforms.
Prodip Sen, chairman of the OPNFV board of directors, said “With Arno, we now have a solid foundation for testing some of the key resource orchestration and network control components for NFV.”