Athonet Collaborates with Wind River to Accelerate Deployment of NFV Solutions
ICCA winner Athonet, a world leader in software-based mobile core networks, announced that it has selected Wind River Titanium Cloud as a carrier grade platform to showcase its Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) developments.
Titanium Cloud is a commercial-ready NFV infrastructure software platform that enables service providers to deploy virtualized services faster, at lower cost, and with the high reliability that the industry demands. By validating and pre-integrating their offerings with Titanium Cloud, companies can deliver optimized solutions that are ready for deployment in live networks to service providers and telecom equipment manufacturers (TEMs).
Athonet has performed its testing and validation process as part of the Wind River Titanium Cloud ecosystem program dedicated to accelerating the deployment of solutions for NFV. Through the collaboration of industry-leading software and hardware companies, the Titanium Cloud ecosystem ensures the availability of interoperable standard products optimized for NFV deployment with Titanium Cloud to help accelerate time-to-market for service providers and TEMs.
Athonet launched one of the world’s first fully virtualized production ready mobile core network in 2010 and since then its solutions have been deployed by enterprises, governments and mobile network operators across the world. Athonet specializes in hyper-distributed, fully software-based mobile core networks that combine the best of edge and cloud deployments to meet the demanding requirements of Industry 4.0, Public Safety, Smart Grids and Smart Cities, Connected and Autonomous Vehicles.
Titanium Cloud is designed to meet the stringent "always on" requirements of the telecom industry. With Titanium Cloud as the NFV infrastructure software foundation, the telecom industry can rapidly rollout new services while ensuring the carrier grade uptime and strict reliability mandated by telecom networks. Titanium Cloud is based on open software standards including Linux, real-time Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), carrier grade plugins for OpenStack®, Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK), and accelerated virtual switching, all optimized for Intel architecture platforms.
