ETSI’s network functions virtualisation (NFV) industry specification group (ISG) this week published 11 specifications, heralding the completion of phase one of its work.
The documents include an infrastructure overview, an updated architectural framework, and descriptions of the compute, hypervisor and network domains. They also cover management and orchestration, security and trust, resilience and service quality metrics.
These documents lay the foundations for NFV technology, providing industry players with definitions of key concepts and a common language that will help companies collaborate with one another.
"I’d like to thank all of the NFV ISG participants for their tremendous dedication through our numerous face-to-face meetings and conference calls to evolve the NFV vision," said Steven Wright, chair of the ETSI NFV ISG.
Phase two is now underway, which sees the NFV ISG turn its attention to developing normative requirements that will encourage interoperability be tween NFV solutions and aid in the establishment of formal testing methods for NFV. Work on the first 28 documents began in November, and they are due to be published over the coming two years.
Phase two will also see ETSI’s NFV ISG work more closely with other standards bodies to help focus their work and to avoid duplication.
"Achieving and validating interoperability at critical reference points is the key focus for phase two," said Don Clarke, chair of the NFV ISG’s network operators council (NOC).
