prpl Foundation announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) had joined its board

By Joy Dumasia

prpl Foundation announced that Amazon Web Services (AWS) had joined its board. The announcement aims to help standardize cloud-based application orchestration to manage the life cycles of containerized software components for next-generation customer-premises equipment (CPE) software stacks. This will enable service providers to more easily scale operations through the containerization of apps and services, moving away from monolithic firmware updates to a modularized approach that allows for simplified CPE application deployments and updates.

AWS has joined the Board of prpl Foundation to collaborate with prpl members and partners in the telecommunications ecosystem to standardize and build a platform-independent service delivery framework with AWS IoT Greengrass; a service deployed to CPE devices that orchestrate software components and application life cycles from the cloud. Bringing the power of AWS and its suite of container management and data processing services, AWS IoT Core and AWS IoT Greengrass will be used to implement the standardized framework for cloud-to-CPE device orchestration.

Leonard Dauphinee, President of prpl Foundation, said: “Service providers are increasingly turning to carrier-grade open-source software components to manage the increasing variety of CPE hardware platforms. Moving from monolithic updates to a modular design approach enables them to easily deploy and update applications and containers without impacting the entirety of the CPE software stack. With containerization, providers can further simplify the scaling of operations.”

Shyam Krishnamoorthy, General Manager, AWS IoT, said: “Our customers are excited about the opportunity to accelerate their innovation with the next generation of CPE software stacks powered by prpl and AWS IoT Greengrass. AWS IoT Core and AWS IoT Greengrass, along with other AWS cloud services, provide built-in capabilities for CPE devices, including security, updateability, easy configurability and reliability at scale. Many service providers and CPE vendors are looking for these capabilities as they build with prpl’s open reference architectures to implement a modular design approach for CPE software stacks that leverage the advantages of the cloud.”

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