AT&T today announced it will release its Enhanced Control, Orchestration, Management and Policy (ECOMP) platform to the wider telecom industry as an open source offering managed by the Linux Foundation. The goal, the company said, is to make ECOMP the telecom industry’s standard automation platform for managing virtual network functions and other software-centric network capabilities.
According to AT&T’s John Donovan, that’s exactly what appears to be on the horizon. “We want to build a community — where people contribute to the code base and advance the platform. And, we want this to help align the global industry,” Donovan said in an AT&T release.
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