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AssigneeMetaswitch Networks Ltd.
InventorsAndrew Lee, David Hotham, Joe Powell, Philip Davies, Michael Duppre, Jamie Parsons, Steve Orbell
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According to a first aspect, there is provided a method of testing a plurality of virtual network functions (VNFs) during commissioning of the plurality of VNFs in a virtualized environment in a customer network, the method comprising: at a VNF testing component configured to have access to the virtualized environment of the customer network, performing interoperability testing between a first VNF component instantiation (VNFCI) within a first VNF of the plurality of VNFs and a second VNFCI within a second VNF of the plurality of VNFs, the second VNF being different from the first VNF, the first VNF and the second VNF comprising a subset of VNFs within the plurality of VNFs, wherein performing the interoperability testing comprises: instructing the first VNFCI to interoperate directly with the second VNFCI in a predetermined manner; and determining whether the second VNFCI reacts to the instructed direct interoperation in an expected manner.
A method of testing a plurality of virtual network functions (VNFs) by a VNF testing component during pre-deployment commissioning of the plurality of VNFs in a virtualized environment of a customer network, the method comprising:
An apparatus, comprising:
A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable instructions stored thereon, the computer-readable instructions being executable by a computerized device to cause the computerized device to perform operations comprising:
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