--Xiao Ran, Strategy & Business Development VP of Products & Solutions, Huawei

IBM
"IBM has been committed to open source for over 17 years and works with service providers to accelerate their digital reinvention. Collaborative initiatives, like the Open Network Automation Platform, will help us further drive NFV innovations in the marketplace. ONAP provides a framework for service providers and system integrators to advance cloud-based network solutions adoption. IBM will provide strong cloud capabilities, cognitive solutions, agile and open development environments and NFV-specific products."

--Steven L. Canepa, General Manager, Global Telecommunications, Media and Entertainment, IBM

Intel
"As the communications industry advances the digital transformation of business services, collaboration through open source projects like ONAP is critical for accelerating deployments. Becoming a founding member of ONAP is consistent with Intel's long-standing investment in and support of community-based development as a way to enable ecosystems to deliver innovative solutions faster. We are encouraged to see the industry converging open source management and orchestration (MANO) efforts, as well as investing in the development of mature, deployment-ready commercial solutions."

--Sandra Rivera, Vice President and General Manager, Network Platforms Group at Intel

Nokia
"Open standards have and will continue to drive a lot of innovation in our industry. We are excited about collaborating with AT&T and China Mobile along with leading service providers and vendors. By working together, we are confident ONAP aligned with the ETSI work will move the industry towards more automated network operations on a faster time scale than any one organization could by itself."

--Bhaskar Gorti, President of Applications and Analytics, Nokia

Orange
"Our close collaboration with AT&T during the past year, and the broader new scope of the ONAP project is we believe a unique opportunity for our industry to make the SDN/NFV ecosystem scale while avoiding its fragmentation. This 'network operating system' will enable fast growing, innovative and interoperable network and application services at a global scale. We are very proud to contribute to this project."

--Alain Maloberti, SVP of Orange Labs Networks

Tech Mahindra
"We will now truly live our COPA (Co-creation, Open source, Platform and Automation) strategy. In the coming days, emergence of ONAP would prove 1+1=3. We are not looking at ONAP as merely automation of Orchestration and Management of the networks, it will pave the way for effective collaboration across industry and catapult TSPs (Technology Service Providers) into Digital Enterprises."

--Manish Vyas, CEO Network Services, Tech Mahindra

VMware
"Bringing OPEN-O and ECOMP together under the common ONAP effort will have a tangible impact on defining a common approach to network orchestration and automation. VMware is pleased to serve as a founding and Platinum member to this seminal effort, building on our tradition as a leader in and contributor to major open source projects. We will help define a common, encompassing and extensible foundation for orchestration of software-defined networks and network functions, bringing the same innovation engine that made virtualization and cloud computing commonplace. Together with the ONAP community, VMware expects to see accelerated progress that will enable seamless interoperability across technology vendors and service providers, and bring significant qualitative and quantitative benefits to the industry."

--Constantine Polychronopoulos, VP & CTO, Telco and NFV at VMware

ZTE
"ZTE, an OPEN-O Premier member and second largest code contributor in the OPEN-O SUN release, believes this combination will extend the scope of the original OPEN-O project and introduce more capabilities of traditional OSS (Operation Support Systems) to the SDN/NFV orchestration and management platform. This in turn will accelerate commercial deployments of the next generation, cloud-centric SDN/NFV network. ZTE committed to join the merged ONAP community as a Platinum member, and will work in a comprehensive manner with partners in the ecosystem in modeling, architecture, code development and marketing. We also believe our contributions to the OPEN-O code base, especially the approach to MANO, which conforms to the ETSI NFV specification, will help the rapid improvement of ONAP."

--You Yan, Director of Technical Planning, Vice President of ZTE

Others are invited to participate in ONAP by getting involved in the technical community and by joining as members. For more information, visit https://www.onap.org.

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