September 2016

Join the Verizon* & Intel® Network Builders Innovation Challenge 2016

The Verizon* Network Visionaries Program and Intel® Network Builders Program invite you to participate in the Verizon & Intel Network Builders Innovation Challenge 2016 for a chance to demonstrate your solution in the Verizon Network Visionaries Lab in Waltham, MA, and win $25,000 in market development funds to apply to your co-marketing plans with Intel.

 

 

Welcome Our New Ecosystem Partners

With more than 210 ecosystem partners, the Intel® Network Builders program continues to grow! We welcome new partners Argela, BroadForward, Forcepoint, Nuage Networks, and Phluido.*

 

 

New Content on Intel® Network Builders University

Intel® Network Builders University is excited to announce the release of three new courses. The first new course is part of our Basic Training Program and provides an overview of container technology and its benefits in virtualization and cloud computing. The next two courses are part of our Communications Service Providers Program and provide an overview on NFVI hardware configurations as well as re-architecting VNFs.

 

 

Register Now for the Next Intel® Network Builders Workshop

Intel® Network Builders is hosting an ecosystem workshop in conjunction with SDN & OpenFlow World Congress in The Hague, Netherlands, and you are invited to attend. Join us for this Day 0 event on October 10 that will include presentations and panel discussions featuring communications service providers, ecosystem partners, and Intel technology experts. Come to add your leadership voice to discussions on the latest developments relating to SDN & NFV solution delivery and adoption, security, and the strategies shaping the future of telco cloud.

 

 

Intel® Builders Summit Recap

The Intel® Builders Summit in August was a great success. More than 270 members of our ecosystems came together for a day of industry-leading discussions on top-of-mind topics for cloud, network, and storage. The day's agenda included keynote addresses from Intel executive leadership, 12 partner presentations featuring ecosystem voices from across all Intel Builders programs, four lively panel discussions, and end user presentations from Verizon* and Netflix*—plus an end-of-day meet-up featuring live music and exclusive networking opportunities.

 

 

Industry Leaders Discuss the Future of the Network

Recently on the Intel Network Builder Social Hub, leaders from Intel and the Intel® Network Builders ecosystem shared their visions for the future of mobile edge computing, the transition to 5G, the importance of ecosystem collaboration, and more. Read their thoughts and perspectives in the blog posts below:

New Resources for Open Source Initiatives Now Online

Intel experts, along with a vibrant community, contribute to many open source projects. Code contributions are accompanied by extensive documentation and guides for installation, use of advanced features, performance tuning, and use case enablement. Below please find some of the latest contributions relevant for OpenStack,* Open vSwitch,* and DPDK open source projects.

 

 

From B to C – What's Happening in OPNFV

OPNFV is an open community project developing solutions for transforming to network functions virtualization (NFV) and software defined networking (SDN). Learn the progress the vendor and service provider communities are making to accelerate the transformation.

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Telco Cloud Webinar Series

Telco cloud represents an enormous opportunity for communications service providers to transform their business practices. This new series of webcasts on the Intel® Network Builders webinar channel examines the opportunities of telco cloud adoption and the possibilities it is creating for the industry.

Featured Publication Bringing Network Transformation to IP Multimedia Subsystems This white paper describes how communications service providers can address these challenges with a network functions virtualization (NFV)-based virtualized IP Multimedia Subsystem (vIMS) that increases agility and lowers deployment and operational costs compared to traditional IMS solutions without NFV. Learn More     Partner Release Parallel Wireless* Selected by Telefonica* to Support Digital Innovation Telefonica* has selected Parallel Wireless'* innovative vRAN solution to cost-effectively help enable digital services in dense urban and remote areas in European and Latin American markets. The groundbreaking virtualized technology will connect the unconnected on an accelerated timeline while meeting national and local regulatory requirements. The globally proven solution will not only change the economics of delivering wireless coverage, but will also eliminate the majority of deployment challenges by enabling flexible backhaul and easy installation and maintenance through automation. By eliminating the digital divide, it will allow economic growth and enable a further connected world today and tomorrow. Learn More

Social Hub

For our ecosystem's latest news, podcasts, webinars, blog posts, and more, visit Social Hub. Recent contributions from our community have included podcasts from Juniper Networks* and Netrounds.*

 

 

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