Elisa Polystar has acquired FRINX s.r.o, a Slovak telecom network automation software supplier. FRINX products and software will complement Elisa Polystar’s zero-touch automation and analytics offering, which helps communications service providers (CSPs) automate their network management processes in a multivendor telecom network environment. The acquisition is consistent with Elisa’s strategy to grow digital services internationally and accelerate development of its telecom software business under Elisa Polystar. With this transaction, Elisa Polystar is taking another step on its strategic j ..read more

FRINX, a leading network services automation vendor, today announced it has partnered with VodafoneZiggo, the market-leading Dutch Service Provider, to deploy FRINX Machine™, a network and services automation solution. FRINX Machine provides VodafoneZiggo with Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP) for their Vodafone Flex B2B service, delivering a superior customer experience with industry-leading service activation velocity. “We are excited to partner with VodafoneZiggo. Together we have demonstrated that by leveraging open source-based solutions we were able to improve the activation velocity of thei ..read more

FRINX has released the latest version of FRINX Machine, its network automation solution, consisting of workflow, resource management and network control. Version 1.9 brings many new features and enhancements such as: Authentication and Authorization via MS Active Directory, transaction capabilities via the config screen UI, InfluxDB for analytics data storage and many more.  For a full list of new capabilities go to: https://github.com/FRINXio/FRINX-machine/releases  To try out the latest version of FRINX Machine visit: https://demo.frinx.io ..read more

FRINX has been working with Telefonica and its vendors to deploy a standardized SDN interface for its 30.000 microwave links in production. Because of its unique expertise in SDN technologies and carrier grade solutions, FRINX was able to support Telefonica and its vendors to implement this use case. https://www.telefonica.de/news/press-releases-telefonica-germany/2021/12/milestone-in-software-defined-networking-sdn-o2-telefonica-uses-new-standardized-sdn-interface-for-30000-microwave-links.html ..read more

We are happy to be recognized as an Intel Network Builders Winner's Circle Gold member. Working together with Intel's test labs and deploying FRINX solutions on Intel's latest processor architectures allows us to reliably meet and exceed our customer's automation needs. Working together with Intel allows us to test and deploy our solution on the latest server processor architectures and to leverage Intel's Smart Edge Open toolkit.   #Intel #FRINX #SmartEdgeOpen #OpenConfig #network #automation ..read more

The FRINX team has worked together with the Intel Network Builders program to perform a comprehensive set of performance tests of our network control software on Intel Xeon processors. FRINX and Intel published a white paper that demonstrates 50,000 network devices connected to our controller with an application response time of under 29 ms for 95% of responses (max response time <200 ms) based on Intel Xeon processors. Of course, we are in geek heaven, but these results also really matter for communication service providers who need to automate the rollout of their 5G networks.  Feel ..read more

We have just shipped a new release of FRINX Machine (FM 1.7). In the following series of videos, you can learn about new features and techniques that will help you to automate your network at scale. FRINX Machine 1.7 update - part 1 A closer look at the new features of FRINX Machine 1.7. This video provides an overview of the new device inventory and blueprint functions. We also demonstrate how to add a device to the inventory via the GraphQL API. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=n0SBR2UI0eg&list=PLQ2GwwrvIDrE90Ywa_A5SdQ2t4XRUF8w7&index=1 FRINX Machine 1.7 update - part 2 A closer ..read more

Check out the most recent TIP Open Automation Solutions Group webinar recording where FRINX presented scalable network automation. Hear about what real world use cases are being solved in the OAS group (https://telecominfraproject.com/open-automation/) and learn about which solutions FRINX is working on in the webinar recording. https://vimeo.com/578211927#t=35m33s  ..read more

Our team has been hard at work to create new features in UniConfig, our open-source-based network controller. Some of those are: PostgreSQL as database, support for YANG 1.1 and Tail-f actions, UniConfig client for easy and fully programmatic access to UniConfig features, subscription to NETCONF notifications via web sockets, device configuration via templates, support for 3-phase commit by using NETCONF confirmed-commit, improved logging and many more. All these new features are available in our 4.2.6 release. Get started here: https://bit.ly/3jttRzr Let us know what you would like us to add ..read more

SONIC is a network operating system that is widely used for white label switch deployments. This video demonstrates how the FRINX UniConfig controller can be used to configure devices running the SONIC operating system via the standardized OpenConfig data models for network device configuration. Many thanks to Alejandro Sanchez Sanz for developing the translation units and preparing the demo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Umeyg-Woa0    ..read more