Huawei chooses Skyfire for NFV video optimization – Telecoms.com

Chinese vendor Huawei has commenced a strategic partnership with Opera Software’s Skyfire unit to include Skyfire’s Rocket Optimizer cloud-based video QoE resolution into its Cloud Edge Virtual Multi-Service Engine (vMSE).

Huawei launched Cloud Edge at Mobile World Congress earlier this yr, positioning it as a groundbreaking NFVsolution. It types a part of a broader cloud and SDN roadmap for the following ten years referred to as SoftCOM, which is meant to assist operators navigate the evolution to a extra virtualised infrastructure.

The sort of flexibility promised by NFV is taken into account to be particularly helpful in terms of video streaming, which already accounts for the numerous majority of cellular broadband site visitors and might have dramatic and unpredictable spikes. Huawei reckons its partnership with Skyfire will enhance its capacity to assist out with that.

“Skyfire’s Rocket Optimizer resolution is a good match for our Cloud Edge platform, because it accounts for the 2 largest rising segments of cellular knowledge consumption: audio and video,” mentioned Jason Dai, President of Huawei CloudEdge.

“Both Huawei and Skyfire are established, cutting-edge leaders in NFV,” mentioned Nitin Bhandari, CEO of Skyfire. “We stay up for collaborating with Huawei to assist cellular operators embrace NFV in a easy manner that additionally delivers the best return on funding.”

In different Chinese vendor NFV information, ZTE has had two of its prime techies appointed to key positions within the new Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV) group. Dick Chen, Principal Architect of SDN/NFV at ZTE, will be a part of OPNFV’s board of administrators, whereas Jun Zhang, Radio Network Architect at ZTE, will be a part of OPNFV’s Technical Steering Committee.

“The creation of SDN and NFV has introduced concerning the greatest shift in networking previously 20 years,” mentioned Margaret Chiosi, President of OPNFV. “To make the applied sciences profitable, we have to collaborate to construct a standard basis for the way forward for networks. We stay up for seeing ZTE take an energetic position in serving to to make OPNFV and open supply NFV profitable.”