Six Huawei Employees Win Individual Contribution Awards for World's First Open-Source SDN/NFV Orchestrator

[Baltimore, USA, November 9th, 2016] Six Huawei employees have been recognized for their outstanding contributions to the Sun and OPEN-O community in 2016 following the launch of the first end-to-end (E2E) open-source orchestrator OPEN-O Sun at the Metropolitan Ethernet Forum (MEF).

The six employees include Christopher Donley, Li Hua, Jin Xin, Gary Wu, Li Zongbiao and Liu Jiangping.

Sun Release, which consists of over 2 million lines of code, saw six companies cooperate on the main code including China Mobile and Huawei. The pioneering release adopts mainstream TOSCA and YANG models, open architecture, and standard northbound and southbound APIs. It bridges the gap between virtualized functions and connectivity services for brownfield environments for both residential and enterprise virtualized customer premises equipment (vCPE) use cases. The goal is E2E service and resource orchestration across legacy and SDN/NFV networks for both service agility and accelerated time-to-market (TTM).

With members from different countries and organizations, the Sun integration team was led by Helen Chen from Huawei. This integration occurs in China Mobile’s OPEN-O integration lab, where in addition to OpenStack and other open-source components, Sun Release integrates with physical and virtual network devices from six members. A development and testing infrastructure and processes are built with a distributed development team spread around the world. This provides a strong foundation for continued development well into the future.

The next release of OPEN-O is already being mapped out — requirements are being collected and the roadmap is being developed. Huawei continues to support and promote more mature OPEN-O technologies and healthy OPEN-O ecosystem with partners.