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What was hot at MWC? We round up the action around cloud, SDN, and NFV – and discuss the impact of open-source.
Enter the open-source software leaders: IT takes telco cloud seriously
One of the most important trends from MWC 2016 was the increased presence, engagement, and enthusiasm of the key open-source software vendors. Companies like Red Hat, IBM, Canonical, HP Enterprise, and Intel are the biggest contributors of code, next to independent developers, to the key open-source projects like OpenStack, OPNFV, and Linux itself. Their growing engagement in telecoms software is a major positive for the prospects of NFV/SDN and telco re-engagement in cloud.
OpenStack, the open-source cloud operating system, is emerging as the key platform for telco cloud and also for NFV implementations. Figure 1, taken from the official OpenStack statistics tracker at Stackalytics.com, shows contributions to the current release of OpenStack by organisational affiliation and by module; this highlights both which companies are contributing heavily to OpenStack development, and which modules are attracting the most development effort.
AT&T’s specialist partner Mirantis shows up as a leading contributor of code for OpenStack, some of which we believe is developed inside AT&T Shannon Labs. Tellingly, among OpenStack modules, the single biggest focus area is Neutron, the OpenStack module which takes care of its networking functions. Anything NFV-related will tend to end up in here.
Figure 1: The contributor ecosystem for OpenStack (% of commits, bug fixes, and reviews by company and module)
Source: Stackalytics
- Executive Summary
- Enter the open-source software leaders: IT takes telco cloud seriously
- And (some) telcos get serious about software
- Open-source development is influencing the standards process
- The cloud is the network is the cloud
- Nokia and Intel: ever closer union?
- Figure 1: The contributor ecosystem for OpenStack (% of commits, bug fixes, and reviews by company and module)
- Figure 2: Mirantis contributes more to OpenStack networking than Red Hat or Cisco (% of commits, bug fixes, and reviews by company, for networking module)
- Figure 3: Mirantis (and therefore AT&T) drive the key Fuel project forwards
