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ADVA Optical Networking Unveils Strategic Ensemble Division to Drive NFV Success
February 2016 by Marc Jacob
ADVA Optical Networking launched Ensemble, a strategic division and product suite focused purely on network functions virtualization (NFV). The division combines the software engineering capabilities of ADVA Optical Networking and the award-winning NFV portfolio of its most recent acquisition - Overture. The ADVA Ensemble solution presents communication service providers (CSPs) with the industry’s most comprehensive NFV product suite available. This means that CSPs have an incredible range of choice as to how they implement NFV - choice of hardware platforms, choice of software vendors and choice of deployment locations. ADVA Optical Networking will showcase the ADVA Ensemble product suite at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona from February 22 until February 25, 2016.
The ADVA Ensemble solution is built upon an award-winning and already deployed customer product set. This is something that very few in the NFV market can offer. While other vendors continue to mature their fledgling technologies, the ADVA Ensemble product suite has an advanced mixture of tried and tested pure-play virtualization hardware and software. The Ensemble team is led by James Buchanan as general manager, Prayson Pate, Overture co-founder, as CTO, and Chris Swan as head of business development. Each of these individuals has already had considerable success at driving NFV strategies and product roadmaps forward. Collectively, they will harness their experience to ensure that the ADVA Ensemble solution is at the core of NFV innovation and a key player in the industry. The management group will be supported by a global team of NFV developers and engineers.
