YASTESTBell's leadership in bringing open source ONAP into
production enables innovative new offerings to customers faster and
at lower cost
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 22, 2018 (GLOBE
NEWSWIRE) -- Amdocs (NASDAQ:DOX), a leading provider of software
and services to communications and media companies, today announced
that Bell, Canada's largest communications company, has
successfully implemented the first network automation use case in
production leveraging the Linux Foundation's Open Network
Automation Platform (ONAP). As Bell's strategic partner,
Amdocs brings unparalleled ONAP expertise and DevOps scrum team
agility and delivery capabilities with the goal of driving
innovation faster and reducing the cost of building and operating
the data center of the future.
With clear benefits such as a more elastic network
and increased business agility to be gained from taking advantage
of network functions virtualization (NFV), Bell is driving its
network transformation by leveraging the ONAP-based network service
orchestration (NSO) platform to introduce new services faster to
its enterprise and consumer customers. This includes automating its
data center tenant network provisioning on ONAP to automate the
operations of its data centers. Bell is focused on providing its
operations teams with tools to automate life cycle management of
both physical and virtual network functions, incident management
and service assurance.
Bell's Network 3.0 transformation initiative
includes technology, process and people, with a strong emphasis on
advancing its DevOps journey. This involves building the team and
talent to support a cross-organizational DevOps model and creating
a culture of Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD).
A tangible outcome of this approach is Bell's development of
software that serves as the foundation for ONAP Operations Manager
(OOM), which helps simplify deployments, reduce footprint and
enable continuous delivery. The software has been contributed to
the open source ONAP community to help others embrace ONAP.
"Bell is leading the industry in implementing open
source based on automation for NFV services," said Petri
Lyytikainen, Bell's Vice President, Network Strategy, Services and
Management. "Together with Amdocs, we are fostering a new
partnership business model to realize the benefits of the ONAP open
source community. We are co-developing on the ONAP platform,
implementing services and operationalizing the platform using
continuous integration and delivery methods to deliver services to
market faster and meet the unique needs of Bell's customers.
Amdocs, one of the co-authors of the original ONAP code base, is in
an excellent position to help Bell deliver network automation that
supports NFV and SDN."
"Open source ONAP and programmable network models
are going to be competitive differentiators as networks become more
fundamental to the future digital society. Service providers that
embrace this disruption early with ONAP will be in a significantly
stronger position as networks evolve to become completely elastic,
agile and programmable," said Anthony Goonetilleke, Group President
for Amdocs Technology. "First-mover advantage for ONAP will go to
carriers that establish the vital building blocks by developing
expertise in their organization around open source in networking
and agile development and by smartly leveraging an open and rich
eco-system."
"We expect ONAP to be adopted as the industry
standard for network automation built with SDN and NFV," said Arpit
Joshipura, General Manager of Networking and Orchestration at The
Linux Foundation. "The project has been endorsed by top global
carriers and a vendor eco-system representing more than half of all
mobile subscribers. It's also a clear proof-point that the open
source path to standardization is the most viable solution to drive
agility and automation, and carriers can start immediately with
ONAP."
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About Amdocs
Amdocs is a leading software and services provider
to the world's most successful communications and media companies.
As our customers reinvent themselves, we enable their digital and
network transformation through innovative solutions, delivery
expertise and intelligent operations. Amdocs and its 25,000
employees serve customers in over 85 countries. Listed on the
NASDAQ Global Select Market, Amdocs had revenue of $3.9 billion in
fiscal 2017. For more information, visit Amdocs
at www.amdocs.com.
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for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2017 filed on December 11,
2017.
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