October 13, 2020
RIFT followed with interest the recent Linux Foundation Open Networking and Edge Summit events, particularly around orchestration of cloud native functions and the need for orchestration at a service level. As a long-time proponent of service-level orchestration, RIFT was the first to create community-developed models according to the ETSI GS NFV-MAN 001 specification, which has now evolved into the ETSI GS NFV IFA and SOL specifications.
Our support of ETSI specifications has reached beyond manipulation and life cycle of individual Network Functions. RIFT has long recognized the importance of orchestrating groups of NFs, whether VM-based or containerized, and managing such components across VIMs and locations. The models designed by RIFT contributed to various efforts including ETSI Open Source MANO and ETSI NFV are designed with VIM and location abstraction in mind, thus simplifying the process of designing Network Functions but more importantly Network Services that can span datacenters and private or public cloud.
Industry recognition of the importance of multi-cloud and hybrid cloud, multi-NF services is a position that RIFT wholeheartedly endorses. Today RIFT.ware supports these capabilities of service-level, multi-cloud orchestration in a low-footprint, high-scale, carrier-grade solution. With the industry now adopting a more standards-based approach to service orchestration with adoption of ETSI and TM Forum APIs, positions which RIFT has long championed, RIFT looks forward to full interoperability and openness at the service layer.
For more details on this panel see: ONAP and Cloud Native - The Best of the Two Worlds