Ericsson announced that it is supporting AT&T Inc. in its initiative with OpenECOMP. Under the Linux Foundation, OpenECOMP will provide automation and management software to the open source community to accelerate the development and adoption of new technologies in the carrier ecosystem. Ericsson shares AT&T's vision of a modular and model-driven management and orchestration system with analytics and policy-based control. The company wants to accelerate industry alignment in Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN) management and orchestration. To this end, Ericsson will support service providers who deploy OpenECOMP and work with AT&T to encourage industry alignment.Projects like OpenStack, Linux, OpenDaylight and OPNFV have established clear technology foundations for a healthy ecosystem. These projects allow network operators to address the challenge of crafting services from these components in a sustainable manner. Ericsson will support different open source orchestration and management projects, like OpenECOMP, that establish a clear method to articulate and communicate the operational needs of carriers for next generation networks.Ericsson will continue to collaborate and contribute toward these open source communities to achieve vision of deploying best-in-class application and platform capabilities enabling SDN, NFV and Cloud automation in carrier networks.