Alcatel-Lucent to leverage Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 

Red Hat has announced that Alcatel Lucent will deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), as the common platform for its Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) solution, CloudBand.

Red Hat will be part of Alcatel-Lucent’s CloudBand NFV platform, which offers a new way to design, deploy and manage networking services, supporting a flexible network infrastructure needed to move complex applications and services to the cloud.

As part of its deployment, Alcatel-Lucent specifically chose Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform for use in managing CloudBand Nodes, theturn-key, all-in-one compute, storage and network node system that interfaces with the CloudBand Management System, along with any other OpenStack-enabled nodes.

Radhesh Balakrishnan, General Manager, Virtualization and OpenStack, Red Hat, commented, “We are delighted that Red Hat’s technology has been recognized as best-in-class in the industry for the CloudBand NFV platform and excited that our strength in bringing open-source innovation from projects to enterprise-ready products will offer value to all the vendors hosting applications on CloudBand.”

This collaboration is a product of Alcatel-Lucent’s CloudBand Ecosystem Program and RedHat’s ISV Partner Programme in which Alcatel-Lucent holds premier status.