Sigma Systems has joined the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) Industry Specifications Group (ISG).
Made up of a large community of experts; the NFV group within ETSI is working intensely to develop the required standards for NFV as well as sharing their experiences of NFV development and early implementation. The membership of ISG NFV has grown to over 230 individual companies including over 37 of the world’s major service providers as well as representatives from both telecoms and IT vendors.
“Sigma believes that the integration between OSS and the ETSI MANO will be instrumental to the successful deployment of SDN and NFV implementations,” said Drew Jordan, solutions architect and Sigma member for ETSI. “We are pleased to work with the ETSI community to define these specifications.”
Already making an impact the NFV group had published the first batch of specifications in October 2013, after only 10 months of existence. In addition Phase 1 has been successfully completed and all documents were published early January. Phase 2 is well under way and more details about the programme can be found here http://www.etsi.org/technologies-clusters/technologies/nfv
