Commitment to open, collaborative and integrated solutions to enable
the network as a platform underwrites this global community collaboration
HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 1, 2017--
ADTRAN®, Inc., (NASDAQ:ADTN), a leading provider of next-generation open
networking solutions, today announced the initial members of its ADTRAN
Mosaic Open Network Alliance, which was established to foster vendor
collaboration, widespread development and industry adoption of SDN and
NFV solutions based on open standards.
“ADTRAN has experienced great interest from many industry leading
parties who are keen to collaborate and integrate with truly open
platforms as we support the acceleration of the industry’s transition to
open, programmable, scalable networks,” said Chris Thompson, director of
Mosaic software and solutions portfolio for ADTRAN. “We eagerly welcome
alliance members from across the technology landscape who share our
objective of providing operators around the globe with a single point of
reference for best-of-breed SD-Access and NFV solutions.”
ADTRAN Mosaic is the industry’s most open and complete SD-Access
architecture spanning the entire access network from the cloud edge to
subscriber edge, providing services delivery and support for all
physical access media, whether over fiber, copper, fixed wireless or
coax. As operators look to new, next-generation networks, ADTRAN Mosaic
is accelerating their path to an open SD-Access architecture where
flexible, user-driven services can be scaled and provisioned dynamically
and rapidly.
Mosaic Open Network Alliance’s newest members include:
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Aricent
– Aricent is a global design and engineering company
innovating for customers in the digital era and helping clients lead
into the future by solving their most complex and mission-critical
issues through customized solutions.
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ASSIA
- ASSIA® is the market share leader in management and
optimization software solutions for global broadband and residential
WiFi networks.
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Axiros
– Axiros is the manufacturer of embedded and platform software
technology used in the advanced provisioning, management and control
of remote customer (and enterprise) premise devices for a wide range
of applications including cable broadband, telecommunications, home
automation, Smart City and other IoT applications.
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Cambium
Networks – Cambium Networks is
a leading global provider of trusted wireless solutions that connect
the unconnected. Through its extensive portfolio of reliable, scalable
and secure wireless narrowband and broadband platforms, Cambium
Networks makes it possible for all service providers and industrial,
enterprise and government network operators to build affordable,
reliable, high-performance connectivity.
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CCS
– CCS (Cambridge Communications Systems) is the creator of
Metnet – the world’s only self-organizing 5G microwave backhaul for
small cell, 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA), CCTV and fiber extension
applications. Metnet is powering networks to mmWave 5G performance –
intuitively, scalably, flexibly and cost-effectively.
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iPhotonix
- iPhotonix is the leading emerging technology provider for the
virtualization (SDN/NFV) of the optical access and transformation
occurring throughout the globe in the residential, business,
enterprise and mobile backhaul markets.
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SmartRG
- SmartRG offers the best whole-home WiFi service delivery
platform in its class. Its innovative technology and elegant designs
help broadband operators migrate, manage and monetize the increasingly
connected home experience while exceeding subscriber expectations.
Member Quotes:
"Aricent is deeply invested in the virtualization of the access platform
through leading industry initiatives and a SDN instant VPN access
framework. As a technology and services partner of the ADTRAN Mosaic
Open Network Alliance, Aricent helps companies deliver ever-changing
service portfolios. Aricent is dedicated to supporting the need for
open, programmable and scalable networks for next-generation technology
services, delivering more value. Aricent will bring its industry leading
software frameworks and services to strengthen this alliance and
accelerate the deployment of SD-Access networks.”
Dietmar
Wendt, President, Communications and Technology Systems Business Unit,
Aricent
“We believe that increasing SDN/NFV adoption is an enabler and
accelerator of infrastructure-sharing, which is necessary in
increasingly higher performance networks that provide a better quality
of experience. ASSIA’s SD-Access products, Expresse and Cloudcheck, are
some of the industry’s earliest successful examples of virtualized
networking functions. We are excited to join the Mosaic Open Network
Alliance and look forward to working with ADTRAN to integrate these into
its broader Mosaic initiatives.”
John M. Cioffi, CEO and
Chairman of the Board, ASSIA
"Axiros is a proud technology partner of ADTRAN. We share the common
belief that collaboration among technology experts advances the pace of
innovation and efficiency. The Mosaic Open Network Alliance is an
excellent example of how proponents of open standards, and innovators of
highly specialized technology, can collaborate to create the next wave
of advanced networks capable of supporting telecommunications and IoT
applications on a global basis.”
Michael Shaw, Senior Vice
President, Partner Development, Axiros North America
“SDN solutions based on open standards allow operators to use the right
tools for the job at hand, lowering deployment costs and increasing ROI
without worrying about compatibility within their existing network –
this is what makes the Mosaic Open Network Alliance such a valuable and
important initiative. Rather than re-inventing a complete management
system, integration with Mosaic will also better enable adoption of
Cambium hardware within operator networks, accelerating many
opportunities with customers globally.”
Atul Bhatnagar, CEO,
Cambium Networks
“Aligning CCS Metnet’s unique self-organizing and self-healing (SON)
management software with the Mosaic Open Network Alliance resonates
strongly with our global go-to-market objectives. Mosaic represents a
powerful opportunity for operators to maximize management efficiency and
performance access fixed and wireless networks with a common platform
based on open standards for seamless, end-to-end provisioning and
control.”
Steve Greaves, CEO, CCS
“Participating in the Mosaic Open Network Alliance represents a
significant step in our partnership with ADTRAN and reinforces our aim
of advancing open and modular software platforms that simplify network
operation complexity, enable multi-vendor hardware deployments and
seamlessly connect physical and virtual network elements. iPhotonix
continues to focus and invest heavily in the SD-Access space and
customers are already seeing great benefit through collaborative efforts
such as this.”
Joel Futterman, CTO, iPhotonix
“We applaud ADTRAN's leadership and are delighted to be amongst
the first of many forward-thinking vendors to join the Mosaic Open
Network Alliance. It is within this unique type of forum that SmartOS,
SmartRG’s silicon-independent open source-based Residential Network
Operating System built from the ground up to address carrier grade
subscriber edge features, can further its interoperability to support
future SDN/NFV standards-based solutions for operators seeking to scale
their networks and better serve their customers.”
Jeff
McInnis, President and CEO, SmartRG
For more information on the ADTRAN Mosaic Open Network Alliance, please
visit https://www.adtran.com/open.
About ADTRAN
ADTRAN, Inc. is a leading global provider of networking and
communications equipment. ADTRAN’s products enable voice, data, video
and Internet communications across a variety of network infrastructures.
ADTRAN solutions are currently in use by service providers, private
enterprises, government organizations, and millions of individual users
worldwide. For more information, please visit www.adtran.com.

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