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Streamlining VNF onboarding to improve 5G network management
The latest release of international specifications to help build future software-based mobile networks has been published by the Linux Foundation in the latest version of the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP), and includes information services company iconectiv’s open source APIs for a new network functions virtualization (VNF) information service.
By combining industry-specific and service provider-specific verification criteria, iconectiv’s open source APIs improve interoperability, which is expected to help streamline and speed up the compliance, validation and performance testing for VNF onboarding. According to iconectiv, this will prove crucial to the way 5G and other advanced software-defined networks will be managed.