GENBAND™,
a leading developer of real time communications software solutions,
today announced that it has joined the Alcatel-Lucent
CloudBand™ Ecosystem Program. The Alcatel-Lucent CloudBand
Ecosystem Program is designed to accelerate market development for
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). The award-winning program is
among the first open community of platform vendors, virtual application
vendors and service providers who are developing NFV. As a member of the
Alcatel-Lucent CloudBand Ecosystem Program GENBAND will access
Alcatel-Lucent’s NFV lab to integrate key components of its NFV
applications and solutions portfolio with Alcatel-Lucent’s CloudBand NFV
Platform, comprising the CloudBand Management System and distributed
CloudBand Nodes.
“With more than 30 customer projects underway Alcatel-Lucent is already
a recognized industry leader in NFV, so we are delighted to join their
CloudBand Ecosystem Program to help deliver the benefits of NFV to
service providers,” said Keith Landau, Executive Vice President of
Research and Development for GENBAND. “We will use the CloudBand NFV
Platform to test our NFV applications portfolio consisting of
high-performance distributed or co-located signaling, control and media
communications solutions.”
“We are committed to progressing NFV through sharing experiences and
developing use cases with an open community, so we welcome GENBAND to
the Alcatel-Lucent CloudBand Ecosystem Program,” said Valerie Noto,
Director CloudBand Ecosystem Program, Alcatel-Lucent. “Together with our
other ecosystem members we look forward to helping our service provider
customers effectively evolve their networks through a world-class NFV
platform.”
Key Takeaways
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GENBAND is now a member of the Alcatel-Lucent CloudBand Ecosystem
Program.
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GENBAND will access Alcatel-Lucent’s NFV lab to onboard key components
of its NFV applications and solutions portfolio onto the
Alcatel-Lucent CloudBand NFV platform.
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GENBAND advocates close cooperation with ecosystems to bring
high-performance NFV solutions to market.
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GENBAND’s NFV
portfolio spans its comprehensive real-time communications
solutions set comprised of multiple, high-performance applications and
products including Session
Border Controllers, Intelligent
Messaging, WebRTC
Gateway, Wireless
Access Gateway, Session
Control and Applications
Server solutions, and an intelligent cloud manager that
provides seamless interworking into broader NFV infrastructures.
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GENBAND’s NFV solutions support the key elasticity, scalability and
orchestration tenets for cloud and virtualized environments as
specified by ETSI.
The company will showcase its NFV capabilities at the Carrier
Network Virtualization Conference & Expo in Palo Alto, CA,
December 9-11.
About GENBAND
GENBAND is a global leader in real time communications software
solutions for service providers, enterprises, independent software
vendors, systems integrators and developers in over 80 countries. The
company’s Network Modernization, Unified Communications, Mobility
and Embedded Communications solutions enable its customers to
quickly capitalize on growing market segments and introduce
differentiating products, applications and services. GENBAND’s
market-leading solutions, which are deployable in the network, on
premise or through the cloud, help its customers connect people to each
other and address the growing demands of today’s consumers and
businesses for real time communications wherever they happen to be. To
learn more visit www.genband.com.
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