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CORD™ 4.1 Delivers Open Platform For Multi-Access Edge CloudMENLO PARK, Calif., Dec. 11, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), an operator-led consortium with the mission of transforming networks into agile platforms for service delivery, announced that Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter (CORD) has been significantly enhanced to provide a single a platform for multi-access edge. Now with CORD 4.1, a single distribution supports all subscriber types, including residential, mobile and enterprise. This is a unifying advancement towards supporting all of an operator's subscribers from common shared edge cloud infrastructure. Prior to this release, CORD has been available as a base distribution with residential support (R-CORD), with separate VNFs available for onboarding support of either mobile or enterprise subscribers. CORD 4.1 comes with:
CORD - A Platform for Customization Service definitions can be easily extended and/or customized. Custom or third-party open or closed source VNFs can be onboarded to extend service capabilities. Operators can craft custom service offerings by chaining various VNFs into unique service definitions, thus differentiating their service offerings and addressing the needs of their customers. CORD 4.1 makes customization significantly eaier, with an improved build process, new service definition tools based on declarative models and by bundling 25 VNFs into a single packaged distribution. "CORD 4.1 enables operators to create custom distributions with optimizations targeting their specific market and customer base. At Deutsche Telekom we spearheaded this type of deployment by setting-up and testing the first Multi-Access CORD distribution by merging residential and mobile service VNFs into a single platform," said Robert Soukup, Senior Project Manager, Access 4.1, Deutsche Telekom. CORD and its Ecosystem - a $300B Opportunity CORD make possible the wholesale transformation of the operator edge infrastructure, turning it into an 'edge cloud'. Commodity white box hardware can be used to build the physical infrastructure. This includes servers and switches, but also white box access equipment like OCP XGS-PON and TIP RAN BBUs. CORD then provides the base platform software needed to assemble these 'peripherals' into a cohesive solution leveraging SDN, NFV and Cloud methodologies. CORD is open source, so there are no license fees associated with its use. It is expected that large segments of this existing $300B operator capex spend will shift to deploying CORD and its associated peripherals, and to other ecosystem players who can provide custom integration and service creation services. For vendors and system integrators, CORD provides a baseline platform upon which they can build their own specialized offerings. CORD reduces R&D costs and speeds time-to-market, letting vendors focus on their unique specialized innovations. It is broadly expected that this $300B annual spend will get redistributed as new ecosystem players emerge and the market is redefined by the CORD era. "Heavy Reading forecasts that the majority of communications service providers (CSPs) will use CORD by 2020 to at least some degree, and nearly 40% of all end-customers (residential, wireless and enterprise, collectively) will have service provided by COs or their equivalents using CORD by mid-2021," according to Roz Roseboro, senior analyst of data center infrastructure and MANO, Heavy Reading. CORD - 2017 Year In Review Notable 2017 achievements include:
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