ETSI has announced that its first Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) interoperability Plugtests event held in Spain from 23 January to 03 February achieved outstanding results, with 98 percent of interoperability tests succeeding for features such as network service on-boarding, instantiation and termination. For more complex operations like scaling and network service updates, very encouraging initial results were observed, said ETSI. A total of 35 commercial and open source implementations were tested for interoperability, including 15 virtual network functions, 9 management and orchestration solutions and 11 NFV platforms. More than 160 engineers were involved in the preparation of the plugtests, 80 of them on-site, coming from a diverse community of NFV implementers, including vendors and key Open Source projects such as ETSI OSM, Open Baton, OPEN-O and OPNFV.
Overall, 160 different combinations of VNF, MANO and VIM&NFVI were tested for interoperability and over 1,500 individual test results were reported. The event was hosted by 5Tonic Laboratory with the technical support of Telefonica.
