OPNFV is a carrier-grade, integrated, open source platform to accelerate the introduction of new NFV products and services. As an open source project, OPNFV is uniquely positioned to bring together the work of standards bodies, open source communities and commercial suppliers to deliver a de facto standard open source NFV platform for the industry. Participation is open to anyone, whether you are an employee of a member company or just passionate about network transformation.
By integrating components from upstream projects, the community can perform performance and use case-based testing to ensure the platform’s suitability for NFV use cases. OPNFV will also work upstream with other open source communities to bring the learnings from its work directly to those communities in the form of blueprints, patches, and code contribution.
OPNFV is mainly focused on building NFV Infrastructure (NFVI) and Virtualized Infrastructure Management (VIM) by integrating components from upstream projects such as OpenDaylight, OpenStack, Ceph Storage, KVM, Open vSwitch, and Linux. These components, along with application programmable interfaces (APIs) to other NFV elements form the basic infrastructure required for Virtualized Network Functions (VNF) and Management and Network Orchestration (MANO) components.
Concentrating on these components while also considering proposed projects on additional topics (such as the MANO components themselves), OPNFV aims to enhance NFV services by increasing performance and power efficiency, improving reliability, availability and serviceability, and delivering comprehensive platform instrumentation. Our Software page provides details on the current release of OPNFV.
OPNFV’s goals are to:
- Develop an integrated and tested open source platform that can be used to build NFV functionality, accelerating the introduction of new products and services
- Include participation of leading end users to validate OPNFV meets the needs of 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 ecosystem for NFV solutions based on open standards and software to meet the needs of end users
- Promote OPNFV as the preferred platform and community for open source NFV
Fostering a diverse community of developers who bring different needs, ideas and knowledge to the table means faster time to market and stronger code. We hope you’ll join OPNFV as we work together to effect the game-changing networking transformation that is NFV.