Video: Equinix Joins Telecom Infrastructure Project

Equinix has just joined OCP's Telecom Infrastructure Project, which aims to bring the same principles of openness and disaggregation to the telco domain. In this video, Ihab Tarazi, CTO of Equinix, discusses expectations of the project.  Equinix will support customers in its data centers as they deploy the next generation of OCP-compliant systems. YouTube: https://youtu.be/ViWLx1lFnx8...

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Video: Open Building Blocks for Data Centers

The Open Compute Project (OCP) is really opening up and disaggregating the fundamental building blocks of data centers, explains Dell's Jeff Baher. We're seeing a significant shift in the industry as new leaders set the new rules for the cloud. YouTube: https://youtu.be/jMead-6ZPB...

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Cisco ACI Anchors NTT Docomo's NFV Rollout

Cisco confirmed that its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) is being used to support the NFV capabilities recently rolled out in  NTT DOCOMO commercial LTE network. DOCOMO serves over 70 million mobile customers in Japan. Financial terms were not disclosed. “DOCOMO is working to provide our customers with high-quality telecommunications services that address the increasing demands of data,” said Seizo Onoe, Executive Vice President and...

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Ericsson Supports Multi-vendor NFV for NTT DOCOMO

Ericsson announced that its open NFV platform is supporting the multi-vendor solution deployed in the commercial network of NTT DOCOMO. The launch represents the first commercial deployment of this kind in the world. The Ericsson NFV platform provides interoperability and connectivity with any carrier class virtualized network function and SDN. Based on an open architecture, the solution consists of the OpenStack-based Ericsson Cloud Execution Environment...

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