Ericsson has joined open-source open source cloud computing community OpenStack to support carrier-grade services and applications.
OpenStack provides a flexible alternative cloud management applications based on open-source components.
Ericsson will demonstrate a virtual data centre manager application based on OpenStack and it will be conducted using a test bed consisting of three data centres, distributed across different continents.
The physical data centres are divided into virtual data centres and the slices of virtual data centres are created at the three physical locations and are bound together through elastic networking, forming a separate distributed virtual private cloud, with end-to-end operation and multi-tenant support.
Ericsson has also integrated an automated service-level agreement (SLA) resolution and deployment that allows for differentiation of services and users under classic operator quality of service guarantees, providing SLA-enabled cloud services.
Ericsson Group Function Strategy senior vice-president and head Douglas Gilstrap said by joining OpenStack, Ericsson commits to contributing to the development of the OpenStack suite, providing operators with alternative cloud-infrastructure services.
"Our support of OpenStack, together with our work in the Distributed Management Task Force (MTF) on Open Virtualization Format (OVF), will help to bring cloud technologies into the telecom domain, while ensuring support for classic telecom quality of service and the concept of service-level agreements," said Gilstrap.
