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ADVA Optical Networking Wins Two MEF Excellence Awards
November 2016 by Marc Jacob
ADVA Optical Networking announced that it has won two MEF Excellence Awards. The company was successful in both of the Third Network Technology Solutions Award categories in which it was shortlisted: Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), and Multi-Vendor Technology Solutions. The NFV accolade went to ADVA Ensemble Connector, the software-only virtualization platform for hosting virtual network functions (VNFs) that has already been deployed in a number of real-world networks. The ADVA FSP 150 ProVMe was a winner in the multi-vendor category for its role in a joint NFV orchestration proof of concept (PoC) conducted with InfoVista, Juniper Networks, Oracle and PCCW Global. The honors were presented at the MEF Excellence Awards Dinner at the Hilton Baltimore as part of the MEF16 global networking conference.
The winning multi-vendor project, Enabling Customer-Premises Cloud-Based Services With Lifecycle Service Orchestration, showcased automated end-to-end provisioning of connectivity and value-added services in a realistic network scenario. It was built on the ADVA FSP 150 ProVMe, an edge computing platform combining multi-layer Carrier Ethernet 2.0 and IP demarcation with an internal server that can host virtual network applications. The ADVA FSP 150 ProVMe empowers CSPs to create, operate and manage VNFs in a simple, open and reliable way. With this latest-generation edge device, the project team was able to break new ground by utilizing NFV to provision application-aware distributed customer premises equipment (CPE)-cloud network services, including SD-WAN, and security services. Shifting workloads from traditional data centers to compute on the CPE improves efficiency of resource utilization and creates opportunities for new network services.
