ADLINK,
a leading provider of Edge Computing, today announced its membership as
a Collaborating Innovator of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF)
operator-led consortium. ADLINK and its broad range of strategic
ecosystem partners continue to play an increasingly important role in
influential industry consortiums such as ONF, Central Office
Re-architected as a Datacenter (CORD) and Open Compute Project (OCP) by
working together on advanced, open architecture business initiatives.
As
an open, collaborative, non-profit consortium driving transformation of
network infrastructure and carrier business models, the ONF serves as
the umbrella for a number of projects, building solutions by leveraging
network disaggregation, white box economics, open source software and
software-defined standards to revolutionize the carrier industry.
Working closely with leading communication service providers and
equipment vendors on various open source projects, the ONF leverages its
released reference designs to facilitate the roll-out of
next-generation networking solutions, significantly driving down both
Capex and Opex for the whole ecosystem and opening up enormous business
opportunities for new services.
"Telecom
operators are driving solutions based on open hardware and software
architectures, enabling infrastructure for quick time-to-revenue while
lowering TCO for emerging Edge and 5G deployment. At this inflection
point, the ONF is well positioned to catalyze a transformation of the
networking industry with its newly established strategic plan," said
Jeff Sharpe, ADLINK director of product strategy and business
development for networking and communications. "We are very excited to
join and contribute to ONF, as we will be able to leverage the ONF's
community resources and reference designs to develop next-generation
networking solutions. Our ultimate goal is to bring ADLINK's innovation
and unique value proposition for network transformation to the carrier
industry."
ADLINK began its focus on open architecture by becoming a major
contributor to the OCP more than five years ago. At the ONF, ADLINK will
leverage its Open Compute Carrier-grade Edge Reference Architecture (OCCERA),
OCP and GPU-based solutions to develop next-generation networking and
communications platforms, enabling use cases such as Multi-Access Edge
Computing (MEC), universal Customer Premises Equipment (uCPE) and
extremely low-latency Edge Compute platforms for 5G networks. ADLINK's
solutions will effectively address the requirements for low- latency,
high-bandwidth and compute-intensive applications driven by the needs of
security, deep packet inspection (DPI), Edge Computing, virtual network
functions (VNF), 5G evolution and revenue producing solutions for
operators.
As a leading ODM, ADLINK is an ideal contributor to the ONF-envisioned
business model with its high quality design and manufacturing
capabilities, producing cost- effective COTS/custom solutions with
reduced time-to-market. ADLINK offers design services in every major
geographic region, which benefits customers with increased
responsiveness, short delivery lead-time and ease of doing business
locally. ADLINK also ensures best practices in product lifecycle
management by leveraging its long- standing strategic partnerships with
major processor and software vendors.