World Wide Technology (WWT), a leading integrator that provides innovative technology and supply chain solutions to large public and private organizations, is collaborating with Cisco, Intel®
and Red Hat to launch a new facility for validating full stack Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) solutions. Each of these technology industry leaders are contributing advanced cloud, networking and DevOps technologies to WWT’s existing Advanced Technology Center (ATC), creating a facility where service providers can reduce the time, cost and risk associated with validating NFV solutions. Based on past use cases, the ATC is expected to validate NFV solutions four times faster - from 6-12 months to 90 days - reducing overall costs by 30 percent.*
Behind the agility of NFV is complex technology requiring interoperability expertise in infrastructure, orchestration, applications, virtualization, and automation. Connecting all these elements can slow the time it takes to create effective NFV solutions.
With the NFV-enabled ATC, WWT has streamlined the validation process. The latest industry tools for qualifying, testing and running a complete NFV solution now sit under one roof for customers to use. After validation, a customer’s design can be directly transferred to one of WWT’s many supply chain facilities for immediate implementation.
Additionally, through the ATC, WWT is a leader in on-demand Lab as-a-Service (LaaS) which enables any business, regardless of location, to remotely and more securely tap into WWT’s technology ecosystem for full-scale automated testing, demos, training and sandboxing of NFV.
Bob Olwig, vice president of Business Development and Innovation at WWT said: “WWT has created the definitive model of excellence for testing and validating NFV solutions. Our Advanced Technology Center represents a true shift in the industry that can affect enterprise networks and end users; more revenue-generating NFV solutions can hit the market which in turn can advance the on-demand services being delivered to consumers.”
