Mirantis to Drive NFV Deployments Using OpenStack

Grazed from MSPMentor. Author: Mike Vizard.

Moving to make it simpler to use an OpenStack cloud management framework to manage network functions virtualization (NFV) software that promises to change how network services are delivered and managed, Mirantis, in partnership with Citrix, Metaswitch Networks and Overture Networks, this week announced a Mirantis NFV Initiative.

In effect, Mirantis is creating a reference architecture for deploy NFV software that not only spans its distribution of OpenStack, but also encompasses session border controllers from Metaswitch Networks, application delivery controllers from Citrix (CTXS) and service orchestration software from Overture Networks…

Kamesh Pemmaraju, vice president of Product and Partner Marketing at Mirantis, said his company is looking to accelerate the adoption of NFV software to replace many of the physical appliances currently cluttering networking environments. To accomplish that goal, MSPs and telecommunications carriers need access to a framework that is optimized to manage those NFVs, said Pemmaraju…

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