SAN JOSE, Calif. — Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced Tuesday the new Open Distributed Infrastructure Management (ODIM) initiative, an open-source program backed by several key industry partners that is designed to simplify the management of large-scale geographically distributed physical infrastructure deployments.
The ODIM initiative aims to help resolve the complexity cellcos face when rolling out 5G networks across thousands of sites equipped with IT infrastructure from multiple vendors and different generations of technology, says the news release.
The initiative is being launched in collaboration with Intel and with support from industry partners including AMI, Apstra, Red Hat, Tech Mahindra and World Wide Technology. HPE and Intel plan to initiate an open-source project under the Linux Foundation to further develop the ODIM initiative in conjunction with ecosystem partners to enable end-to-end automated management of networks, says the release.
In addition, HPE plans to launch an enterprise offering, the HPE Open Distributed Infrastructure Management Resource Aggregator, a commercially supported version of the open-source infrastructure manageability function, along with associated infrastructure-specific plug-in components in Q2 2020, says the release.
The open-source release of the ODIM initiative to the Linux Foundation is also targeted to take place in Q2 2020 and will be accessible via www.linuxfoundation.org.
“5G and edge computing industry initiatives will require large-scale and geographically distributed multi-vendor infrastructure deployments that can only be cost effectively realized with infrastructure-as-code automation,” said Claus Pedersen, vice-president of telco infrastructure solutions at HPE, in the news release. “The Open Distributed Infrastructure Management initiative tackles network scalability challenges and the costs associated with vendor lock-in by enabling multi-vendor infrastructure deployments, the centralized deployment of standards-based fault and configuration management, and the aggregation of resource-specific status information.”
The HPE Open Distributed Infrastructure Management Resource Aggregator offers key innovations that will benefit other telco solutions including the recently announced HPE telco core and edge infrastructure blueprints. Delivered as-a-service with HPE GreenLake, these infrastructure offerings provide telcos with a fast ramp for rolling out 5G service across multiple sites.
