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<p class="MsoNormal">At the meeting Wednesday as we were discussing the nature of multi-cloud/regions and how actual OpenSTack installations are currently coordinating across their regions, there was a request for more information about the eCOMP platform.
<a href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/massively_distributed_clouds/2017/massively_distributed_clouds.2017-02-15-15.00.html">
http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/massively_distributed_clouds/2017/massively_distributed_clouds.2017-02-15-15.00.html</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I took the action item to find more info and hopefully bring more knowledgeable architect to the next session of Massively Distributed WG on March 1.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/massively_distributed_ircmeetings_2017">https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/massively_distributed_ircmeetings_2017</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In terms of more information in advance: <o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">eComp is in production at AT&T and in trial in a few other companies.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">The OpenSource effort is not yet finished, but well along (code cleaned and submitted under Linux Foundation)
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Recent announcement and very high level video introduction can be found here:
<a href="http://www.lightreading.com/open-source/ecomp-open-source-nfv-sdn-automation/v/d-id/730395">
http://www.lightreading.com/open-source/ecomp-open-source-nfv-sdn-automation/v/d-id/730395</a>
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">White paper with a little more detail is here:
<a href="http://about.att.com/content/dam/snrdocs/ecomp.pdf">http://about.att.com/content/dam/snrdocs/ecomp.pdf</a>
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