Ericsson and NEC both came out as vendor partners for NTT DoCoMo’s network functions virtualization plans, including the telecom giant’s recently announced multivendor NFV platform.
Ericsson said its platform is based on the Open Platform for NFV network architecture and was used for NTT’s commercial service launch late last week, which the vendor claimed was the first of its kind. The platform is said to provide interoperability and connectivity with any “carrier class virtualized network function” and software-defined networking solution.
