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OPNFC, or Open NFV, is a new movement that is a collaborative project from the Linux Foundation. The objective is to create a platform to speed up the rise of NFV. Another objective of OPNFV is to increase the agility of services by facilitating better usage of the underlying functions. Telecom operators are particularly interested by this initiative; they hope to obtain a referential open source platform to validate the interoperability of NFVs in a multi-provider context. OPNFV is also an excellent opportunity for the creation of an open platform that could be used by all participants. OPNFV also encourages cooperation between manufacturers, with the aim of driving NFV forward and ensuring consistency, performance and interoperability between virtualized network infrastructures. The OPNFV project is in close cooperation with the NFV program at ETSI to ensure a coherent implementation of the NFV standard. The first thing that is expected of OPNFV is to provide an NFV Infrastructure (NFVI), Virtualized Infrastructure Management (VIM) and APIs to other NFV elements. This collection forms the basic software necessary for Management and Network Orchestration (MANO). The standards are being drawn up in collaboration with the main open source projects. OPNFV is working with a large number of these projects to coordinate the integration of NFV. We will go through a more detailed study of this platform in the chapter on open source software (Chapter 4).