Aethra Telecommunications Joins Hewlett Packard Enterprise OpenNFV Partner Program

Aethra Telecommunications Joins Hewlett Packard Enterprise OpenNFV Partner Program

ANCONA, Italy, November 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

    Aethra Telecommunications, a leading provider of business class access network devices
and integrated voice and data routers, today announced that it has joined the HPE OpenNFV
Partner Program [http://www8.hp.com/us/en/cloud/nfv-partners-labs.html ].

    The HPE OpenNFV Program provides an open standards based Network Functions
Virtualization (NFV) reference architecture, so that operators can take advantage of full
range of solution that can help them in the migration from a legacy network to a NFV
enabled network.

    Being part of the HPE OpenNFV ecosystem gives Aethra Telecommunications the ability to
test and validate their new NFV product lines in the HPE OpenNFV infrastructure, realizing
a fully validated multivendor and open architecture as per the NFV / SDN paradigm.

    "Aethra Telecommunications is fully embracing virtualization and NFV as part of its
strategic vision to be able to help operators design the future of their networks" says
Luca Messina, Aethra Telecommunications CTO "as members of the HPE OpenNFV Partner Program
we're looking forward to offering a validated and fully integrated solution."

    Aethra Telecommunications NFV solutions and vCPE VNFs offer feature parity and same
operating system of the physical CPEs, granting the possibility to easily migrate segments
of the network to NFV, simplifying the operators IT work and allowing physical / virtual
coexistence scenarios out-of-the-box.

    "Aethra Telecommunciations is a great addition to our OpenNFV ecosystem," says Werner
Schaefer, vice president & general manager, NFV Business Unit, HPE. With partners like
Aethra and our open architectural approach, we are able to offer carriers a flexible,
multivendor platform to quickly test and launch new and innovative services."

    For more info: http://www.aethra.com [http://www.aethra.com ]

    About Aethra Telecommunications 

    Aethra Telecommunications is the commercial brand of A TLC S.r.l.

    Aethra Telecommunications develops, manufactures and markets high performance network
access devices and carrier solutions.

    Innovation and research are the core of Aethra Telecommunications' approach to the
market. Aethra Telecommunications solutions are entirely designed in Italy and the R&D,
engineering and support departments have more than 40 years' experience in
telecommunications.

    With an installed base of broadband CPEs exceeding 500 thousand units, Aethra
Telecommunications product portfolio of VoIP integrated access devices, xDSL access
routers and EFM ethernet demarcation devices is designed to provide advanced and cost
effective solutions to Small/Medium Enterprises as well as branch offices of large
Corporations.

    The access network product lines are complemented by a set of solutions targeted to
help carriers in deploying NGANs, by offering either copper-based remote powering systems
for FTTCab architectures or complete solutions addressing the upcoming FTTdP scenarios.

Aethra Telecommunications

CONTACT: Media Contact: Stefano Wosz, T: +39 071 2506542, E: stefano.wosz@aethra.com