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Containers, like Docker, are a virtualisation technology that is rapidly gaining ground and is expected to have a great impact in the future deployments of cloud technologies and Network Function Virtualisation (NFV). Containers virtualise the OS, making it possible to deploy multiple container-based applications on top of it. Because of this ability, they are very popular in the DevOps movement, as it makes it very fast to build, test and deploy applications.

Ongoing evolutions in the Network Function Virtualization (NFV) area show that software will play an increasingly important role within telecommunication services. Telco providers benefit from this, as it enables a faster introduction of new telecom services, combined with an agile set of features to optimize and fine-tune their performance. However, the provided NFV-based telecom service can only be well supported if adequate software tools are available. Therefore, the development, deployment and maintenance of such services puts specific requirements on the platform providing it.

The end-to-end Service Management is one of the network operators, as well as the wider industry, most important key NFV features. Business decisions are oriented to create different services for different customers, enabling a rich suite of personalized offers. The key value resides in that customers may be able to compose their own proprietary services selecting basic network service components in order to create the services that better fit with their specific needs.

This week, from June 15 to 17, partner UCL is hosting the SONATA developer teams for a second integration and testing meeting in London.

The first prototype of the SONATA service platform and SDK is about to be released to the public.

Our developer teams are working against the clock on the integration and testing of those components that will constitute the first version of the SONATA project results.

We look forward to reporting back soon with the outcomes of this 3-day intensive session of work.

This week in Barcelona, from April 19 to 21, partner i2CAT will be hosting the SONATA developer teams in Barcelona for a developers meeting and hackathon.

SONATA partners gathered in Athens at the National Center of Scientific Research "Demokritos" for its second plenary meeting in late November 2015. With the requirements deliverable completed earlier in the fall, the meeting proved important to sync visions and complete the initial architecture for the SONATA service platform and SDK.