Huawei and Red Hat are teaming up to leverage the OpenStack cloud orchestration stack to create network functions virtualization (NFV) solutions for communications service providers.
The two companies want to leverage Huawei’s expertise with telcos and Red Hat’s OpenStack and open source capabilities to help CSPs embrace OpenStack-enabled cloud computing as they introduce NFV in their networks.
As part of this initiative, announced early this month, Huawei and Red Hat will integrate Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform and Huawei’s FusionSphere Cloud OS at the management layer to offer an open, flexible, and production-ready cloud solution to support telecommunication carriers' NFV evolution.
The two vendors plan to align upstream contributions, engineering, product, and go-to-market efforts to drive the adoption of OpenStack for NFV implementations by CSPs.
Huawei and Red Hat will work together to contribute NFV enabling features to the upstream OpenStack community, which are required by CSP cloud deployments, and serve as the foundation of scalable Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions.
By contributing results from their collaboration to the upstream community, Red Hat and Huawei are enabling the broader OpenStack community to benefit from their collaboration, unlike approaches that favor proprietary add-ons and further vendor lock-in, Huawei said in a statement.
The pair will also work together to certify the joint solutions.