By Pierre Lynch, Chair, ETSI NFV ISG, TST Working Group & Lead Technologist at Ixia Solutions Group, Keysight Technologies
Since OPNFV is an integration project incorporating multiple components from various other open source communities into an NFV reference platform, its focus has been on testing from the beginning. Obvious examples of this are the testing projects that are being used by the industry, like Yardstick, Functest, NFVBench and Bottlenecks. Testing is at the core of OPNFV. ETSI, with its Center for Testing and Interoperability (CTI), who run the Plugtests, along with the ETSI NFV TST working group, responsible for testing, experimentation and open source collaboration, also make sure that testing is at the center of attention at ETSI NFV.
With this in mind, the ETSI NFV community is very happy to have testers and developers from both communities assemble under one roof and work together. This is, in my view, such a natural progression of the already excellent relationship between the testing communities of both organizations.
There are multiple ETSI NFV – OPNFV collaboration activities that will happen during the event, which takes place at the ETSI headquarters, May 29 – June 8 in Sophia Antipolis, France:
There are also multiple OPNFV project meetings that will occur during the Plugfest:
And of course, there is an entire set of interoperability test sessions scheduled between all the Plugtests participants, bringing in their NFVI+VIM, VNFs and MANO stacks. As in previous Plugtests, several OPNFV scenarios will be actively involved in those sessions in the role of NFV platform (NFVI+VIM). There will be 47 organizations participating in the 3rd NFV Plugtests, that will start one week ahead of the co-located Plugtests with OPNFV. As with the second ETSI Plugtests, the testing will get more ambitious, bringing in advanced functionality, more EPA test cases, more sophisticated auto-scaling, including scale to level, as well as FM and PM advances. In addition, the experimental API track, started during the last Plugtests in January, will be expanded to include additional APIs. This track allows participants to try out their new API implementations based on ETSI NFV-SOL specifications, and will provide input to the NFV-TST010 specification on NFV Conformance
This will be a busy and productive week for both communities, as these events usually are. However, having both communities together will also lead to more learning and collaboration opportunities unlike no other individual event. We are all looking forward to it.
There is still time to register! Click these links for details on the ETSI NFV Plugtests and OPNFV Plugfest.