Under recently-appointed CEO Charlie Vogt it is expanding its horizons
Acquisition of RIFT adds telco edge cloud smarts to the portfolio
RIFT is DZS’s second acquisition of 2021
How well do you know DZS? The name might not be overly familiar to a lot of people in the telecoms industry but that’s set to change following an acquisition that catapults the access network technology vendor into the telco edge cloud sector and gives it a voice in the open networking, and therefore Open RAN, market.
The company DZS has acquired is RIFT, a well-regarded company in the open source virtualized networking sector that specializes in the automated onboarding, orchestration and management of virtual network functions. It has been active in ETSI’s open source MANO group, participated in multiple TM Forum catalyst programmes, and in its flagship RIFT.ware stack has developed an open source multi-domain service orchestration and network service virtualization platform. It recently announce