CableLabs announces two new OpenStack projects

Industry consortium CableLabs recently announced two new open source projects associated with OpenStack, including SNAPS-Boot and SNAPS-OpenStack. The purpose of SNAPS (SDN and NFV Application Platform and Stack) is to enable operators to implement software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) in HFC networks. Both technologies play an important role in the virtualization of network infrastructure. The former involves controlling network behavior through application program interfaces (APIs), or open programmatic interfaces like OpenFlow; whereas the latter involves decoupling software from hardware.