DOCOMO Develops First NFV Technology for Multi-vendor EPC Software
February 19 2016 - 1:00AM
Business Wire
—Commercial service on DOCOMO’s mobile network
to start this March—
NTT DOCOMO, INC. announced today that it has completed
development of the world’s first network function virtualization
(NFV) technology that can run Evolved Packet Core (EPC) software
from multiple vendors to enhance connectivity in high-volume areas.
DOCOMO plans to deploy the technology on its network starting this
March.
NFV technology enables communication software originally
designed for dedicated hardware to run on virtualized hardware. It
will help to ensure stable network operation by improving
connectivity when data volume is high, as well as following natural
disasters or in the event of hardware failures. It is expected to
accelerate delivery of new services and enhance the efficiency of
infrastructure investment by enabling software from multiple
vendors and hardware to be combined openly in a mobile network.
“Multi-vendor NFV technology, once regarded as pie in the sky,
will now be deployed commercially on our mobile network,” said
Seizo Onoe, DOCOMO’s Executive Vice President and Chief Technology
Officer. “Many NFV technologies already deployed still rely on
single vendor, so we expect this truly multi-vendor NFV technology
will be a long-awaited game-changer in the mobile industry’s
ecosystem.”
The new technology complies with specifications set by the
European Telecommunications Standards Institute’s Industry
Specifications Group for NFV.
DOCOMO also plans to deploy software-defined networking (SDN)
technology to make IP network flexible in accordance with the
introduction of NFV. It enables to maximize above-mentioned
advantages of NFV.
Going forward, DOCOMO expects to virtualize many other key
components of its mobile network, aiming at eventually establishing
a fully virtualized network.
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