Huawei releases MANO white paper, allows for better use of NFV

[Shenzhen, China, Feb. 23, 2016] In the lead up to the 2016 MWC in Barcelona, Huawei, a leading global information and communications solutions vendor, released a white paper on NFV MANO (Network Functions Virtualization Management and Orchestration), the “Huawei CloudOpera MANO White Paper”. It combines their ICT experience with NFV industry trends, relates Huawei’s understanding of MANO, and describes ideas and methods for NFV lifecycle management.

Operators are facing severe structural challenges, the gap between services and revenue is widening, and many operators are beginning to test the NFV waters. In contrast to traditional networks, NFV is a layered network, and various ICT vendors are involved. Providing efficient, simple operations and ensuring carrier-grade reliability are the main challenges of NFV. In the open source environment, how can operators quickly integrate multiple vendors?

The industry-leading Huawei CloudOpera MANO focuses on solving these problems. As of Q4 2015, Huawei has made the greatest contribution to MANO standards of any company. Huawei has also emerged as a leader in commercial contracting. This new white paper provides a complete list of enterprise standard open APIs of MANO to support the integration of different vendors in each NFV layer and pushes the industry towards a more open ecosystem. Huawei has already worked with third-party companies such as Redhat and Opera. Meanwhile, in Xi’an, China, Huawei has built the NFV OpenLab to support vendor integration, joint innovation with customers, industry organizations and partners, and to build an open ecosystem together.

Jiang Wangcheng, the president of the Huawei Wireless Network SingleOSS product line, said that the virtualization of telecommunication networks is inevitable, and that MANO’s capabilities are vital to future cloudified networks. On the topic of Huawei’s role in these developments, he said, “We are always striving to make valuable contributions to domestic and international standards organizations in the field of NFV. Huawei is currently working hard on standardizing MANO architecture and bringing the openness of NFV to maturity, eventually leading to the enablement of telecommunications network virtualization and the building of a healthy ecosystem.”

Huawei looks forward to working with their customers and partners to innovate, build an open ecosystem, and make the best NFV solution possible.

For more information of the white paper, please contact us: wangshengnan9@huawei.com.

MWC 2016 takes place in Barcelona, Spain from February 22 to 25. Huawei will showcase its latest products and solutions at Fira Gran Via Hall 1 and Hall 3.