ETSI has released the results of its NFV Plugtests event conducted from 23 January to 3 February in Spain.
98 percent of the interoperability tests succeeded for features such as network service on-boarding, instantiation and termination.
ETSI observed very encouraging initial results for more complex operations like scaling and network service updates.
ETSI tested 35 commercial and open source implementations for interoperability, including 15 virtual network functions, 9 management and orchestration solutions and 11 NFV platforms.
More than 160 engineers including 80 on-site engineers were part of the preparation of the Plugtests. NFV implementers, including vendors and Open Source projects such as ETSI OSM, Open Baton, OPEN-O and OPNFV were part of the test.
ETSI connected 29 remote labs to ETSI Plugtests network to ensure interconnection and integration among the different Virtualized Network Functions (VNFs), Management and Orchestration (MANO) solutions and NFV platforms participating in the Plugtests.
ETSI organized test sessions in several parallel tracks during the two week testing phase. ETSI scheduled 10 different combinations of MANO and VIM&NFVI (NFV platform), testing up to 4 VNFs on each of them during the day. ETSI tested 160 different combinations of VNF, MANO and VIM&NFVI for interoperability and reported over 1500 individual test.
The test plan developed by ETSI’s Center for Testing and Interoperability, focused on validating ETSI NFV Release 2 capabilities including management of descriptors and software images, as well as life cycle management of network services and virtual network functions. It consisted of 26 test cases, classified in groups going from onboarding and instantiation, through different types of scaling and network service updates to terminate and teardown operations.
“The results for the setup and termination groups were near perfect, achieving almost 100 percent success for both,” said Pierre Lynch, vice chairman of the NFV Testing, Implementation and Open Source working group.
