QUEBEC CITY,
July 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ - EXFO Inc.
(NASDAQ: EXFO, TSX: EXF) announced today its participation in
Alcatel-Lucent's CloudBand™ Ecosystem Program, the first open
community of platform vendors, virtual application vendors, and
service providers who are developing Network Functions
Virtualization (NFV), which was created in 2013 to help foster NFV
innovation and share knowledge. The CloudBand™ Ecosystem Program
offers members free and open access to a live and distributed cloud
infrastructure using CloudBand 2nd generation NFV
management and orchestration.
As part of the NFV community, EXFO will
contribute its expertise in network testing to advance application
tests and other test solutions in the simulated cloud environment,
and create use cases to demonstrate NFV solutions to service
providers. This initiative aims to promote the transition of
networks to the carrier cloud to drive new revenue potential
and operational efficiency for the telecommunications industry.
"I am very happy to welcome EXFO as a new member
of our CloudBand™ Ecosystem Program focusing on the new telecom
frontier of NFV," said Valerie Noto,
Director, CloudBand Ecosystem at Alcatel-Lucent. "I am sure EXFO
will bring innovative solutions and expertise in the testing space
necessary for this new game changer in the telecom Industry."
"We are proud to participate and contribute our
expertise in developing new and innovative use cases to help
service providers test and assure service performance and user
quality of experience as they adopt and embrace cloud-based NFV.
EXFO is leading the way in virtual test and virtual probe-based
service performance monitoring and analytics, and we are excited to
be part of the CloudBand™ Ecosystem Program to collectively advance
knowledge and technological innovation in our industry," said
Vikas Arora, Chief Technology
Officer at EXFO.
NFV virtualizes network services via
software-enabling operators to reduce OPEX/CAPEX, as well as
accelerate time-to-market while providing the agility and
flexibility to quickly scale services to address changing demands.
It enables service providers to bring the agility, efficiency and
economics of the cloud to their own networks and business
operations, allowing them to offer cloud services with the
performance and reliability that consumers and enterprises
expect.
For more information about EXFO's test
solutions, please visit EXFO.com.
About EXFO
Listed on the NASDAQ and TSX stock exchanges, EXFO is a leading
provider of next-generation test, service assurance and end-to-end
quality of experience solutions for mobile and fixed network
operators and equipment manufacturers in the global
telecommunications industry. EXFO's intelligent solutions with
contextually relevant analytics improve end-user quality of
experience, enhance network performance and drive operational
efficiencies throughout the network and service delivery lifecycle.
Key technologies supported include 3G, 4G/LTE, VoLTE, IMS, video,
Ethernet/IP, SNMP, OTN, FTTx, xDSL and various optical technologies
accounting for more than 38% of the global portable fiber-optic
test market. EXFO has a staff of approximately 1600 people in 25
countries, supporting more than 2000 customers worldwide. For more
information, visit www.EXFO.com and follow us on the EXFO Blog,
Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Google+ and YouTube.
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