Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) today announced that the company joined the NFV open platform (OPNFV), which is a carrier-grade, integrated, open and flexible platform designed to use NFV (network functions virtualization) to accelerate the introduction of new products and services . As an open source project, OPNFV standards organization located in the open source community and commercial providers work to integrate, to provide the industry de facto standard open source NFV platform.
NFV use IT virtualization technology throughout the network node functions into virtual building blocks, connected or constituent links, establish communications services. Altera will participate OPNFV internal working group, the FPGA accelerator applications to the virtual machine, calculated on the basis of the top-level facilities run different software and processes in industry-standard high-volume servers, storage and cloud.
Altera communication business unit vice president and general manager Francis Chow, commented: "FPGA can be used for 'super charge' virtual machine applications, lower power consumption, ideal for NFV industry at the same time, FPGA reduces capital and operational expenses NFV applications. accelerated service, shorten time to market, providing a more efficient solution. "
As FPGA accelerator uninstall computing workloads, power consumption is lower than the generic graphics processing units (GPGPU) and a central processor unit (CPU) - which helps to reduce data center power consumption. FPGA and SoC-based solutions have been used in the data center search and neural network convolution for accelerating server.
Heather Kirksey OPNFV director, said: "OPNFV various organizations as a result of industry collaboration, we can use the open platform to accelerate the establishment of NFV We are delighted to welcome Silver member Altera added, will help us achieve our goal of open source NFV.."
OPNFV work in favor of service providers
OPNFV work was originally developed by the network service providers to promote, including OPNFV founding member of AT & T, China Mobile, NTT DOCOMO, Telecom Italia and Vodafone. In addition, other sectors such as financial services and large enterprises and cloud service providers to take advantage of how NFV showed interest.