Dialogic, a company that provides communications applications, today rolled out a cloud and network functions virtualization (NFV) test bed.

Its NFV proving ground is based on the OPNFV code for a virtualized infrastructure manager (VIM). Dialogic is a member of the OPNFV open source group.

The test bed will provide automated management and configuration of Dialogic’s internal compute, storage, and networking resources. Dialogic uses these internal resources to test its own virtualized media, signaling, and application layer software.

The test bed initially will be based on OPNFV’s Brahmaputra release. Just yesterday, OPNFV released Colorado, the third iteration of its code.

OPNFV’s VIM was built with telco customer deployments in mind. It combines OpenStack, OpenDaylight, and various other open source components.

One of the first uses for the Dialogic NFV proving ground will be to make more efficient use of the large number of COTS servers it’s been using. Dialogic uses these servers to performance-test its virtual network functions, including its load balancer and virtualized session border controller.

In early 2016, Dialogic bought APEX Communications in a move to provide real-time voice applications to its service provider customers. The delivery of such applications as interactive voice response (IVR) marks a new business for Dialogic, which ultimately wants its array of products to tie into a wider NFV story.