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on their HP NFV system designed to accelerate the move to network functions virtualization by ensuring carrier grade reliability, scalability and performance. Speaking of which – this week I was at GENBAND Perspectives 15 where there was an NFV panel<\/a> consisting of Sharon Rosov of ConteXtream, Werner Schaefer of HP, Renu Navale of Intel and Charlie Ashton of Wind River. One comment Charlie made was they now deliver six nines reliability – an amazing number to say the least – under a minute per year<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe HP NFV System is pre-integrated with HP Helion OpenStack Carrier Grade and is designed to ensure end-to-end systems design, validation and support to ensure continuous availability of critical network functions.<\/p>\n
The company has a complete set of components to get you started consisting of:<\/p>\n
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- HP NFV Starter Kit<\/strong> – An all-in-one kit comprised of compute nodes with carrier grade performance, control nodes in high availability configuration running virtual infrastructure management (VIM) software – HP Helion OpenStack Carrier Grade, as well as physical infrastructure management (PIM) software and storage nodes. HP Basically the goal is to be a complete turnkey solution designed to help you quickly and effectively deploy NFV clouds.<\/li>\n
- HP NFV Compute Kit<\/strong> – Comprised of server nodes that run virtual network functions (VNF) workloads, combined with carrier grade capabilities that enable fast packet processing required in telecommunications applications. It can be added to the HP NFV Starter kit to augment its workload processing capacity, providing customers a flexible scale out path.<\/li>\n
- HP NFV Control Kit<\/strong> – Consists of HP Helion OpenStack Carrier Grade VIM software and PIM software, including HP OneView, HP Intelligent Management Center and HP Central Management Console. HP NFV Control Kit is designed for customers running custom, limited trials reusing existing infrastructure elements with minimal CAPEX spend.<\/li>\n
- HP NFV Storage Kit<\/strong> – A pre-configured solution that can be integrated with HP NFV Starter Kit to provide additional capacity for storage intensive applications like content delivery networks (CDN). This solution simplifies integration with existing HP NFV System environments, reducing time to roll-out new services with the goal of minimizing service provider OPEX.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
“Many telcos and suppliers have done NFV proof-of-concepts and are now ready to move to production. To do that, they need solutions that are open, carrier grade, and easy to deploy,” said Saar Gillai, senior vice president and general manager, Network Functions Virtualization and Global Lead Telecommunications, HP. “HP NFV System provides an integrated, pre-tested, deployment-ready NFV hardware and software platform to get customers up-and-running quickly and confidently.”<\/p>\n
- HP NFV Compute Kit<\/strong> – Comprised of server nodes that run virtual network functions (VNF) workloads, combined with carrier grade capabilities that enable fast packet processing required in telecommunications applications. It can be added to the HP NFV Starter kit to augment its workload processing capacity, providing customers a flexible scale out path.<\/li>\n