Alcatel-Lucent announced a technical collaboration agreement with KT to drive innovation and the adoption of a comprehensive Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)-based infrastructure. KT sees NFV underpinning its Giga Network architecture.
Under the agreement, KT and Alcatel-Lucent will create an NFV proof-of-concept that includes Alcatel-Lucent’s:
- Virtualized Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) systems to provide advanced service delivery capabilities;
- CloudBand NFV platform for the management of the NFV environment;
- and Nuage Networks Virtualized Services Platform (VSP) for software defined networking (SDN) to consolidate and automate the network.