At the OpenStack Summit Boston, the Board of Directors of the OpenStack Foundation elected China Unicom and FiberHome Telecommunication Technologies as Gold Members of the Foundation. Both new Gold Members demonstrate OpenStack?s strategic value for networking and large-scale service providers. Telecoms and large network operators are using OpenStack not only to build public and private clouds but also to take advantage of the strong set of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) capabilities and ecosystem support that OpenStack offers.
China Unicom is one of the three largest telecommunications providers in China and is a global provider with implementations in 69 countries. China Unicom?s Wo Cloud, based on OpenStack, provides public, private and hybrid cloud services to more than 1,400 customers, including key players in industry, healthcare and government. China Unicom is a participant in many open-source initiatives and began using OpenStack in 2010.
FiberHome is a China-based, international provider of information and communication network products and solutions. A Corporate Sponsor of the OpenStack Foundation since 2015, FiberHome uses OpenStack to provide cloud communications and network integration solutions in 12 big data centers in different industries via its FitCloud product family. Among its customers, FiberHome counts China Travel Sky Holding and Hubei Province, for which FiberHome deployed the largest, province-level, e-government cloud platform in December of 2016.
?FiberHome has been contributing to OpenStack since the Mitaka release and is thrilled to take our community involvement to the next level,? said Chen Gang, chief architect at FiberHome. ?OpenStack has been and will continue to be central to our growth and to furthering our goal of becoming a fully integrated information and communications technology solutions provider. We look forward to sharing our experiences and the feedback of our customers and to playing an even greater role in promoting OpenStack around the world.?
"I'm excited to see FiberHome's upstream focus on fixing reported bugs and helping review patches,? said Jeremy Stanley, infrastructure engineer with the OpenStack Foundation and Technical Committee member. ?This is exactly the sort of helpful contribution too often overlooked by other companies early in their community involvement."
The OpenStack Foundation Board evaluates new potential members based on their strategic commitment to OpenStack and contributions to the community, as well as diversity of company size, location and industry.
