[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 220 (Friday, November 14, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68301-68302]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-26942]


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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division


Notice Pursuant to the National Cooperative Research and 
Production Act of 1993; Open Platform for NVF Project, Inc.

    Notice is hereby given that, on October 17, 2014, pursuant to 
Section 6(a) of the National Cooperative Research and Production Act of 
1993, 15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (``the Act''), Open Platform for NVF 
Project, Inc. (``Open Platform for NVF Project'') has filed written 
notifications simultaneously with the Attorney General and the Federal 
Trade Commission disclosing (1) the identities of the parties to the 
venture and (2) the nature and objectives of the venture. The 
notifications were filed for the purpose of invoking the Act's 
provisions limiting the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to actual 
damages under specified circumstances.
    Pursuant to Section 6(b) of the Act, the identities of the parties 
to the venture are: 6Wind SA, Montigny-le-Bretonneux, FRANCE; Alcatel-
Lucent, Murray Hill, NJ; ARM Limited, Cambridge, UNITED KINGDOM; AT&T, 
Dallas, TX; Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA; Brocade Communications, 
San Jose, CA; Cable Television Laboratories, Inc., Louisville, CO; 
Cavium, Inc., San Jose, CA; CenturyLink, Monroe, LA; China Mobile 
Communication Co., Ltd. Research Institute, Beijing, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC 
OF CHINA; Ciena Corporation, San Jose, CA; Cisco Systems, Inc., San 
Jose, CA; Citrix, Santa Clara, CA; ClearPath Networks, El Segundo, CA; 
Contextream, Inc., Mountain View, CA; Coriant GmbH, Munich, GERMANY; 
Cyan, Inc., Petaluma, CA; Dell USA, LP, Round Rock, TX; Dorado 
Software, Inc., El Dorado Hills, CA; Ericsson AB, Kista, SWEDEN; 
Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, CA; Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., 
Shenzhen, PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA; International Business Machines 
Corporation, New York, NY; Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA; Ixia, 
Calabasas, CA; Juniper Networks, Sunnyvale, CA; Metaswitch Networks, 
Ltd., Enfield, UNITED KINGDOM; Mirantis, Inc., Mountain View, CA; NEC 
Corporation, Tokyo, JAPAN; Nokia Networks, Espoo, FINLAND; NTT DOCOMO, 
Inc., Tokyo, JAPAN; Ooredoo Group, Doha, QATAR; Orange S.A., Paris, 
FRANCE; Overture Networks, Inc., Morrisville, NC; Red Hat, Inc., 
Raleigh, NC; Sandvine Incorporated ULC, Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA; 
Sprint Corporation, Overland Park, KS; Telecom Italia S.p.a., Torino, 
ITALY; Vodafone Group PLC, Newbury, UNITED KINGDOM; and Wind River 
Systems, Alameda, CA.
    The general area of Open Platform for NVF Project's planned 
activity is to drive the evolution of Network Function Virtualization 
(``NFV'') by (a) developing an integrated and tested open software 
platform (including interfaces to hardware) capable of providing NVF 
functionality (the ``Platform''); (b) contributing changes to and 
influencing upstream projects leveraging the Platform; (c) building

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new open source components within the Platform where needed; (d) 
leveraging open implementations to drive an open standards and open-
source-based ecosystem for NFV solutions; (e) supporting and 
maintaining the strategic framework of the Platform through the 
technologies made available by the organization to make the Platform a 
success; (f) promoting the Platform worldwide as the preferred NFV 
reference platform; (g) coordinating the promotion of the Platform 
among members and non-members; and (h) undertaking such other 
activities as may from time to time be appropriate to further the 
purposes and achieve the goals set forth above.

Patricia A. Brink,
Director of Civil Enforcement, Antitrust Division.
[FR Doc. 2014-26942 Filed 11-13-14; 8:45 am]
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