Amdocs, the leading provider of customer experience solutions, Wednesday unveiled the Network Cloud Service Orchestrator and a new partner ecosystem to help service providers transition to Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) architecture.
Amdocs said that the new Network Cloud Service Orchestrator is an open, vendor-agnostic, catalog-driven solution that enables service providers to define and activate complex services containing virtual network functions (VNFs) from multiple vendors in a matter of days. Amdocs added that it has a range of VNF products including Amdocs Policy Controller, the industry's first Policy and Charging Rules Function (PCRF) to fully align with ETSI's NFV ISG blueprint architecture for management and orchestration.
Its NFV Service Partner Program is focused on pre-integrating a rich set of VNFs and NFV infrastructure elements in order to simplify the complexity of service orchestration, improve service time-to-market, and address end-to-end Service Level Agreement considerations.The program currently has 21 partners including Juniper Networks, Metaswitch Networks, Red Hat and Connectem.
More than 250 service providers run Amdocs' mission-critical solutions. Of those, over 100 already benefit from Amdocs' network-grade, control-plane solutions, with distributed processing of more than 1 billion low latency events per day in some of our larger deployments. This heritage of service management and orchestration gives Amdocs a unique understanding of the communications market and makes us an ideal partner for service providers seeking to realize the benefit of NFV and cloud-based services.
- Rebecca Prudhomme, vice president of product and solutions marketing
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