Arno offers a baseline platform. It enables integration, automated deployment and testing of components from upstream projects, including Ceph, KVM, OpenDaylight, OpenStack, and Open vSwitch. End users and developers will be able to deploy their own or third party virtual network functions (VNFs) on Arno to test functionality and performance in various traffic scenarios and use cases.
CableLabs supports the OPNFV project. In a blog on the CableLabs site, Don Clarke, principal architect at CableLabs, praised the project. "At CableLabs we are very keen on the open source approach because it enables the industry to collaborate to build common features while avoiding duplication of effort," he wrote. "This enables everyone to focus on product development and service creation. We have been eagerly awaiting this first release as it provides the foundation for our virtualization projects and we will be proposing to bring in our Virtual Business CPE APIs for the next OPNFV release."
More than 100 developers have been involved in the OPNFV project since its launch eight months ago (see "Linux Group Taking NFV Open Source"). This community developed the necessary processes to work on two projects spanning the requirements needed to build NFV solutions.
"OPNFV has met one of its major goals by creating an integrated build, deployment and testing environment that accelerates NFV implementation and interoperability," said Prodip Sen, chairman of the OPNFV board of directors. "With Arno, we now have a solid foundation for testing some of the key resource orchestration and network control components for NFV."