AT&T picks Amdocs to serve as integrator for ECOMP

Perhaps not surprisingly, Amdocs has been chosen to serve as the integrator for telecom companies and cloud developers that want to use AT&T's ECOMP platform to build their own software-centric network services.

AT&T created and developed ECOMP, and recently committed to releasing the code into open source. ECOMP is a software suite that spans the entire NFV service life cycle. Some of the benefits AT&T has touted with ECOMP include its ability to shorten service introduction times, improve operational efficiencies and drive agile data-driven service management of NFV and SDN functions and services.

"A system like ECOMP is very powerful as it allows us to build our next generation cloud-based network in a vendor agnostic way, giving us great flexibility for deploying NFV/SDN in our network," said John Donovan, chief strategy officer and group president for AT&T, in a recent interview with FierceTelecom. "It costs less than maintaining existing network systems, and it allows us to accelerate the implementation of new services quicker than ever before." Article