Founded upon the principles of open, ethical and transparent development, OPNFV brings together service providers, vendors and users to collaborate in an open forum on advancing the state-of-the-art in NFV. It will establish a carrier-grade, integrated, open source platform to accelerate the adoption of NFV products and services.
Initial project goals are to:
- Develop an integrated and tested open source platform that can be used to investigate and demonstrate core NFV functionality
- Include proactive participation of leading end users to validate that OPNFV meets the needs of the end user community
- Contribute to and participate in relevant open source projects that will be leveraged in the OPNFV platform; ensure consistency, performance, and interoperability among open source components
- Establish an open ecosystem for NFV solutions based on open standards and open source software to meet the needs of end users
- Promote OPNFV as the preferred platform and community for open source NFV