Recently, led by China
Unicom Network Technology Research Institute and BII-Global SDN Certified
Testing Center, along with more than 10 suppliers and partners, China CORD
Industry Alliance Testing Working Group has been officially announced, which, based on the open source system architecture and software
platform of ONF CORD Certification Brigade, gathers the energy of the
whole industry, realizes collaborative innovation and win-win cooperation, and
drives the development of edge computing.
Figure:
Members of China CORD Industry Alliance Testing Working Group
After its establishment,
China CORD Industry Alliance Testing Working Group will
carry out CORD test case compilation and standard formulation within the system
framework of Open Networking Foundation (ONF) to jointly promote the launch of
CORD certification project. It will mainly carry out group component
testing, centralized testing, optimize CORD POD deployment process, conduct CORD
functional, performance and reliability testing, launch the internal group
testing standards for China CORD Industry Alliance, and deploy pilot projects
in China Unicom and other application units. CORD testing will provide
assurance to the operator community to ensure that the supplier's products meet
the common critical functions, performance and life cycle requirements in the
CORD environment.
China CORD Industry
Alliance was initiated by China Unicom in 2016 to integrate the advantages and
resources of traditional operators, CORD manufacturers, chip manufacturers and software
service providers, while introducing the concept of open source into
cooperation. Based on architecture and software technology of CORD open source
organization and relying on industry alliance, China CORD Industry Alliance will
strengthen open source development capability, achieve synergistic innovation
and win-win cooperation, jointly promote the commercial deployment of CORD in
China, and accelerate the transformation to a new generation of network
architecture.
ONF is an international
open alliance organization led by operators in 2011. By using SDN, NFV and
cloud technology to build solutions around network hardware and software
decoupling, white box devices, open source software and software definition
standards, ONF promotes the transformation of network infrastructure and
business modes of operators, and helps the whole ecosystem to significantly
reduce the cost of Capex and Opex, including 5G. Mobile networks, super
broadband and other future network technologies.
CORD (Central Office
Re-architected as a DataCenter) project is an open source project in SDN field
initiated and managed by ONF. It is an ideal platform for building and
constructing edge cloud concept. The latest version has fully supported cloud
native application Kubernetes. Apart from supporting the transformation of
operator's CO (Central Office) into cloud data center, CORD transforms
operator's and enterprise's edge computer room into a basic platform with edge
access capability. Its goal is to provide reference to the implementation of
network operator's service delivery platform. Its core output includes a
software platform, a series of hardware specifications and service models. CORD
project integrates a series of open source projects, including OpenStack,
Docker and ONOS®, and uses DevOps application development model to build an
open, programmable and agile platform for network operators. The scenarios of
CORD are mainly divided into home access business (R-CORD), enterprise business
(E-CORD) and mobile business (M-CORD). In the above scenarios, CORD has also
developed monitoring analysis (A-CORD).
In this April, China CORD
Industry Alliance Testing Working Group will hold its first meeting in Beijing
to carry out testing and standard-setting work, help pilot project of China
CORD edge platform deployment, accelerate the development of the entire
industry, and promote the construction of a new industrial ecological system.
Contact us
E-mail: qiuchen1@chinaunicom.cn;
lma@biigroup.cn
Tel: 8610-56381681-130
