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First OPNFV Plugfest Was Successfully Held

[Colorado, USA, May 9-13, 2016] The first OPNFV Plugfest, hosted by CableLabs and Huawei, was held at the CableLabs' facility in Colorado, USA.

The Open Platform for Network Functions Virtualization (OPNFV) community was founded on September 30, 2014. This Linux Foundation cooperation project aims to provide a carrier-grade NFV open source integration platform for the industry. The Plugfest provides a chance to test and interconnect NFV solutions based on the OPNFV, verifies the latest OPNFV products, facilitates communications between the industry and the OPNFV community, improves OPNFV products and performance, and constructs a healthy ecosystem.

Nineteen companies, including Huawei, Ericsson, Intel, Wind River, Red Hat, China Mobile, and Orange, attended the Plugfest. Tests in the meeting include OPNFV deployment using different hardware platforms and installers, integration of the OPNFV platform and SDN controller, and OPNFV-based application deployment and lifecycle verification.

CableLabs is a well-known non-profit research and testing consortium. Mitchell Ashley, vice president of CableLabs, and Tian Hongbo, Huawei representative, welcomed guests with a speech. They appreciated the contributions and achievements made by the participants for the OPNFV community.

During the five-day testing event, the members designed and verified multiple use cases for OPNFV B-release. The event encouraged mutually beneficial collaboration, provided experimental evidence for OPNFV C-release, and accelerated the ecosystem development.

Huawei, Ericsson, Red Hat, and Mirantis used Intel Wildcat and Huawei E9000 servers to verify the installation and testing procedure of OPNFV B-release with multiple installers including Huawei Compass and Mirantis Fuel. China Mobile organized Wind River, Huawei, and Raisecom to perform interworking tests, with the help of Huawei technical support, between the OPNFV and Wind River virtualization platforms. In addition, as main contributors to testing suites Functest and Yardstick, Huawei, Orange, and Ericsson provided entire technical support. The testing suites were well verified based on OPNFV B-release and Huawei FusionSphere virtualization platform. Huawei shared the Yardstick information about its solution, direction and troubleshooting, as well as how to migrate vEPC to OPNFV B-release.

OPNFV members cooperated and shared data during testing. The members discussed hot topics, such as testing tools, SDN controllers, and further community development. Tetsuya Nakamura, board member of the OPNFV community said, "I think the Plugfest has exceeded everyone's expectations on value of the event." He thanked the members for sharing and working together, especially CableLabs and Huawei for their support.

As a platinum member and major contributor of the OPNFV community, Huawei led the development of 14 OPNFV projects, such as Bottlenecks, Compass, Octopus, DoveTail, and ONOSFW, which ranks No.1 in the community. Huawei has contributed more than a million lines of code and two OPNFV labs. It is the first company to deploy the commercial vIMS and vEPC over the OPNFV platform.

The second OPNFV Summit will be held on June 20-23 in Berlin, Germany. Huawei will further communicate and discuss with OPNFV members and the industry.

Huawei Home Presence Awarded Best Innovative Future Comms Service at IMS World Forum

[Amsterdam, the Netherlands, May 19, 2016] At the IMS World Forum 2016, the Huawei Home Presence solution was awarded "Best Innovative Future Comms Service over IMS".

Emily Martyr, Head of Research at Informa (Left) and Liu Mingju, Vice President of Huawei Cloud Core Network MSSD MKT Dept.(Right)

The IMS World Forum is the world's largest IMS professional forum and is one of the most influential events in the industry. The forum attracted more than 300 delegates from the world to explore the future of IMS. The award ceremony recognizes global operators and vendors who have made great contributions to the IMS industry. The Home Presence solution enables the TVs with real-time video calling capability for family communication. It was awarded "Best Innovative Future Comms Service over IMS" because of its outstanding innovation, seamless interconnection, and rich integration capabilities, HD video experience, and mature commercial experience.

The Home Presence solution enables connections between TVs and mobile phones, offering differentiated, high quality home video calling experiences. Huawei also works with various industry partners to construct a sustainable video ecosystem, helping operators expand video services for individuals, families, enterprises, and industries. The solution exerts rate adaptation and forward error correction (FEC) to ensure optimal experience in different network conditions, in addition to ultra-HD video calling experience. This solution is built on existing IMS architecture, so it can be interconnected with existing networks to implement multi-screen calling and full-scenario, real-time video communication. Huawei has worked with mainstream chip, STB, camera, and application vendors in the Home Presence solution. Together with these vendors, Huawei has completed a large number of pre-integration, jointly building an alliance for service innovation.

So far, the Huawei Home Presence solution has been put into commercial use by more than 10 operators around the world, among which the Miss You service was rolled out in China by Sichuan Telecom. Debuting on October 22, 2015, the Miss You service attracted more than 3 million users within four months. It stimulated real-time video communication services in China and greatly promoted the development of IPTV and value-added services including telemedicine and distance education. The Miss You service, which will definitely become a nationwide video communication service, is expected to develop more than 100 million users in next three years.

"We are honored to receive this award," said Liu Mingju, Vice President of Huawei Cloud Core Network Marketing Department. "Thanks for recognizing Huawei. We will continuously invest in innovation in the real-time video communication field, nurturing more business opportunities for global operators."