Amdocs has announced new offerings and enhancements to help service providers transition from today’s physical networks to network cloud service environments, achieving agile and lean operations, while transforming their networks to deliver user-defined services that can be quickly and simply activated. These new offerings leverage Amdocs’ strengths in both the network and IT software domains to provide deployment-ready solutions that support hybrid physical/virtual networks as service providers begin to map out their virtualization strategies in accordance with ETSI network functions virtualization (NFV) standards.
“The offerings announced today are designed to help service providers transition to virtual networks via a scalable, software-driven, vendor-agnostic approach and AT&T’s announcement naming Amdocs to its User Defined Network Cloud supplier program is further endorsement of this approach. Our CES portfolio, spanning network control and optimization solutions and operational and business support systems, makes us uniquely positioned to bring the business and the network closer and integrate with existing systems for automated end-to-end service management,” said Rebecca Prudhomme, Vice President of Product and Solutions Marketing.
Amdocs Network Cloud Service Orchestrator is an open, vendor-agnostic, catalog-driven solution that enables service providers to define and activate complex services containing virtual network functions (VNFs) from multiple vendors in a matter of days instead of months.
Amdocs NFV Service Partner Program is focused on pre-integrating a rich set of VNFs and NFV infrastructure elements in order to simplify the complexity of service orchestration, improve service time-to-market, and address end-to-end Service Level Agreement considerations. The program currently has 21 partners including Juniper Networks, Metaswitch Networks, Red Hat and Connectum.
