“I’m really happy to get Jonas onboard. His deep knowledge of the technology and IT market in general is a boost for the whole company and an important cornerstone in our expansion strategy” says Christel Sandstedt, interim CEO of PacketFront Software.
News
Latest news from Packetfront Software
BECS 3.18 is released
The latest BECS release is now available for existing customers at www.pfsw.com/support.
@focus in this release is usability and performance. The main features include:
On-demand initial parsing
- Adding flexibility regarding when in time the initial parsing exercise is carried out after an element manager connects to the element
Dedicated GDR connections
- Some connections between the Element Manager and the element will be dedicated to fetching troubleshooting info, so that this info can be obtained quicker if the element manager is busy configuring the element.
Visualize Element Config Mode
- The element configuration mode, i.e. read-only, full-control etc, is illustrated by a badge on the element icon in the topology view making it easier to determine which elements are currently controlled by BECS.
Improved Element State Display
- Specific indication in the BECS GUI that an element is in the state of initial parsing.
Stateful Logging
•Introducing object states, which makes it easier to get an overview of the system health. For example, it is easy to see which objects are currently in an erroneous state, and which ones have been recently resolved.
BBE 2.5.0 is released
The latest BBE release is now available for existing customers at www.pfsw.com/support.
Major changes in the release:
- Java application uses WildFly instead of GlassFish
- Improvements to inventory and subscription management
- Improvements to trouble shooting of GPON customers
- Improvements to report management
Meet us at FTTH Conference 2020 in Berlin
It’s soon time for the yearly FTTH Council event again. Meet us 21-23 of April in Berlin and discover the latest news about PacketFront network automation.
Find more information about the event at: http://www.ftthconference.eu/
BBE 2.4.0 and BECS 3.17 Released
Latest BBE and BECS releases are now available for existing customers at www.pfsw.com/support. Highlights of the releases include following features:
BBE 2.4.0 Release
- Support for ON-API 2.4
- Support for OpenJDK
BECS 3.17
- Automatic CLOB creation – BECS users can synchronize configuration from network elements, which helps in automation of manually created configuration
- Python support – A new script engine supporting Python as a complement to the Tcl script engine
PacketFront Software Joined State Visit In Ireland
His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia did a State Visit to Ireland on 22–24 May 2019 at the invitation of President Michael D. Higgins. The Government was represented by Minister for Foreign Affairs Margot Wallström, Minister for Energy and Digital Development Anders Ygeman, and Maja Fjaestad, State Secretary to Minister for Health and Social Affairs Lena Hallengren.
PacketFront Software participated in an associated business delegation arranged by Business Sweden.
A Digital Infrastructure summit 2019 was arranged in conjunction with the State Visit at Ericsson´s R&D site in Athlone, where among other PacketFront Software’s BECS and BBE products were highlighted in the context of how City Carriers have successfully contributed to the fiber rollout in Sweden.
Meet us at FTTH Council Europe 2019 conference in Amsterdam, 12-14 March
It’s soon time for the yearly FTTH Council event. Meet our team in Amsterdam and discover the latest in the management of fiber networks.
Find more information about the event at: http://www.ftthconference.eu/
Nordix Foundation to advance innovation on open source across the Nordics
Stockholm – Today Nordix Foundation is announced, a Nordic open source foundation with the objective to enable more companies and organizations in the region to leverage open source across entire digital environments. Nordix Foundation will provide an open source network for sharing of knowledge, expertise, training and code.
The foundation is established as a direct response to corporations and organizations expressing a need to increase their knowledge about open source innovation in order to enhance their abilities to successfully use and develop open source projects in their digital transformations.
Founding members of the organization, that in the spirit of open source will be a non-profit and democratic organization, are some of the leading forces within open source in the Nordic countries including; Ericsson, a world leader in in communication technology, infrastructure cloud provider City Network, Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), IT Monitoring Software Solutions company OP5 and PacketFront Software, maker of network orchestration software.
“In order to innovate the best applications and run it on a flexible and scalable platform, companies across the Nordic region are increasingly leveraging open source. At the same time, many organizations are still hesitant to go the open way because of lack of knowledge and support. With Nordix Foundation, we want to address these issues and enable Nordic companies to take the same advantages as organizations in the US and Asia where open source is a natural part in all innovation”, says Johan Christenson, founding member of Nordix Foundation and CEO of City Network.
“Across the Nordics, we have some extremely talented developers and there are many examples of innovative companies disrupting business models and creating new large corporations. Establishing Nordix Foundation to further this innovation and enable the acceleration of new technologies at a global scale is important for our region”, says Christopher Price, founding member of Nordix Foundation and President at Ericsson Software Technology.
The program and specific initiatives that Nordix Foundation will focus on will be agreed upon by participating members where the foundation acts as a framework providing the international connection to other open source organizations, webinars, events and meetings.
For more information about Nordix Foundation, please visit www.nordix.org.
Contact
Johan Christenson, founding member of Nordix and CEO of City Network
johan@citynetwork.se
Christopher Price, founding member of Nordix and President at Ericsson Software Technology
christopher.price@est.tech
Ovum publishes report about PacketFront Software
Analyst firm Ovum has recently published an On The Radar Report about PacketFront Software on the Ovum Knowledge Center. Headline of the report: “On the Radar: PacketFront Software simplifies network orchestration and management”. Link to the report on the Ovum Knowledge Center: https://ovum.informa.com/resources/product-content/spt001-000016
PacketFront Software and Intel host a Network builder’s webinar
PacketFront Software and Intel host a webinar under the topic ‘transformation from legacy to Software Defined Networks’. The webinar is organized by Intel Network builder’s association.
The webinar will highlight how PacketFront Software’s BECS can be utilized in SDN/NFV environment and includes a demo of integration towards OpenStack and OpenDaylight in the OPNFV project.
The webinar will be held on Tuesday February 20th at 16:00 CET. The webinar will be made available off-line for those who can not watch the live presentation.
More info and registration is found here:
Date: February 20, 2018
Time: 16:00 CET
Length: 45 minutes
More information about presented products and organizations can be found at: