OpenStack Summit Boston, the Board of Directors of the OpenStack Foundation elected China Unicom and FiberHome Telecommunication Technologies as Gold Members of the foundation. Both new Gold Members demonstrate OpenStack's strategic value for networking and large-scale service providers. Telecoms and large network operators are using OpenStack not only to build public and private clouds but also to take advantage of the strong set of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)
capabilities and ecosystem support that OpenStack offers.