The big question answered: Must you implement NFV to build 5G?
Bruno Chatras, Senior Standardization Manager, Orange According to Bruno, if you look on 5G as a radio technology, then ‘no’ you don’t have to. But if you understand 5G as an overall concept, then it...
View ArticleNFV ISG: a long way in a short time with further still to go
Diego Lopez, Head of Technology Exploration & Standards, Telefónica Diego has become chairman of the ETSI NFV ISG. He tells Guy Daniels that the ISG has come a long way in a short time and has...
View ArticleBridging the gaps between NFV and 5G requirements
Tetsuya Nakamura, Principal Systems Architect, CableLabs Nobody knows how network slicing works or what edge computing looks like, Tetsuya tells Guy Daniels. So in answer to the question ‘does 5G need...
View ArticleSwisscom continues to benefit from its NFV partnership with HPE
Armin Veit, Senior Solution Architect, Swisscom & Werner Schaefer, VP & General Manager NFV, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Earlier this year, Swisscom and HPE announced a partnership to...
View ArticleVideo could be the nemesis of networks that don't transform fast enough
Justin Paul, Head of NFV & OSS Marketing, Amdocs The exponential growth of video traffic across transformed virtualised communications networks is one of the the most compelling cases for SDN and...
View ArticleOur platform is ready, where are the innovative SDNFV 2.0 service ideas?
Marcus Brunner, Head of Standardization, Swisscom Marcus tells Martyn Warwick that there's currently a distinct lack of the innovative service ideas that SDN and NFV were supposed foster, so Swisscom...
View ArticleWill a “cloud native” approach reduce the complexities of on-boarding VNFs?
Martin Taylor, CTO, Metaswitch How does network functions virtualization impact on other parts of our industry, such as IoT and 5G, and how can vendor partners help service providers reduce the...
View ArticleWill existing BSS/OSS systems be fit-for-purpose in the virtualised network?
Nicolas Fischbach, Strategy, Architecture and Innovation Director, Colt Technology Services Operators, carriers and communications services providers are coming to the realisation that existing...
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Tech Mahindra launches ‘VNF Exchange’ as part of a concerted SDNFV strategy
Den Haag cityscape via Flickr © Georg Schroll (CC BY 2.0) First product independent global industry platform for VNF exchangePart of a broad strategyDesigned to meet emerging need in the SDN/NFV...
View ArticleAn architecture for virtualisation must be open, extensible and, above all, real
Prason Pate, CTO, Ensemble, ADVA Optical Networking As the focus of CSP's turns increasingly to the deployment and operationalisation of network virtualisation, they are seeking truly open family of...
View ArticleTest case: Orange of France becomes the first telco to join AT&T's ECOMP...
Jéhanne Savi, All-IP & On-Demand Networks Programs Executive, Orange Jéhanne Savi talks about Orange's ongoing testing (in Poland) of AT&T's ECOMP platform (Enhanced Control, Orchestration,...
View ArticleNow we are four, but mature for our years
Don Clarke, Principal Architect, Network Technologies, CableLabs NFV has grown up fast and has a maturity that belies it's short four-year lifespan to date. As Don Clarke explains, the focus has now...
View ArticleHow to get the Cloud operator and the Network operator working together
Thomas Morin, Network Architect, Orange & Paul Carver, Principal Member of Technical Staff, AT&T About two years ago OpenStack networking and Telco networking were generally seen as two...
View ArticleUbuntu, OpenStack and the bursting private cloud bubble
Mark Shuttleworth, Founder, Canonical Much of the motivation for many of the people here [at the OpenStack Summit] was to create a private cloud framework where they could sell their legacy goods,...
View ArticleAdvantech: Spinning up the NFV Edge
Advantech Video Feature Advantech has been busy collaborating with partners to enable the NFV network ‘edge’. In this video Paul Stevens, Marketing Director for the Networks & Communications Group...
View ArticleTitanium Server brings OpenStack-based NFV up to carrier-grade, claims Wind...
Charlie Ashton, Director of Business Development, Wind River OpenStack was originally designed for enterprise requirements and while progress has and is being made to make it capable of doing its job...
View ArticleNokia develops Vitrage root cause analysis for OpenStack
Elisha Rosensweig, PHD, Director R&D, CBIS, CloudBand, Applications and Analytics, Nokia & Ifat Afek, System Architect, CBIS, CloudBand, Applications and Analytics, Nokia. Root cause analysis...
View ArticleLiving with OpenStack in a NFV environment
Vanessa Little, Senior Manager Global NFV Ecosystem Architecture, VMware “When we demonstrate our OpenStack build on VMware, telco people are usually surprised that we have all the resilience of a...
View ArticleWhat telcos really think about NFVi
Roz Roseboro, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading A survey on NFV infrastructure, commissioned by Red Hat and undertaken by Heavy Reading, produced some interesting findings. Senior Analyst Roz Roseboro...
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"First, cut out your template": Nokia tackles the VNF 'onboarding' problem
via Flickr © Zoe Perisson (CC BY 2.0) 'Onboarding' VNFs not as easy as it sounds - especially in multi-vendor environmentsNokia comes to the aid of the parties with a 'templating' systemIt’s been...
View ArticlePreparing for 5G: what should go on the CSP ‘to do’ list?
Lynn Comp, Senior Director of Market Development, Network Platforms Group, Intel & Julia Ochinero, Senior Director, NFV and Telco Marketing, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Lynn and Julia ponder the...
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SDN in the data centre: service providers aren’t switching
via Fickr © Henrik Moltke (CC BY 2.0) SDN in the data centre slower than expectedService providers not ready to flick the switch from trial to productionMeans that vendors looking to SDN gear still...
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Operators are sitting on golden eggs but need help to hatch them
via Flickr © erix! (CC BY 2.0) Can you future-proof the future?Or is hype obscuring the reality of network transformation?Operators have many advantages but don't always play to themConnectivity is...
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Sonus and Genband claim merger a 'perfect fit' to support industry shift
via Flickr © 드림포유 (CC BY-ND 2.0) Merger to market leader in real-time communications Complementary strengths provided merger logic Both companies have transitioned to support industry transformation...
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Nokia takes its core network routers into the petabit zone
via Flickr © brand0con (CC BY-SA 2.0) Nokia announces new routing platformsNew silicon - FP4Two new solutions: the 7750 SR-s and the 7950 XRS-XC,Four years or so ago, at the dawn of the current...
View ArticleHow containers enable the MobileFirst CSP
Lars Herrmann General Manager, Integrated Solutions Business Unit, Red Hat The demand for mobile - first and, often, foremost - s growing. To enable customers to effectively leverage mobile apps to...
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5G Mobile Edge Computing trial claimed a success
via Flickr © Andrew Gustar (CC BY-ND 2.0) 5G MEC trial is world's 'first successful'Uses POINT for low latencyPure software solution over standard computing hardware and commercial SDN-based...
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HPE folds Big Switch Networks into its ecosystem to take on Cisco in the data...
via Flickr © rightee (CC BY 2.0) HPE ecosystem to offer Big Switch fabricsUsers want a more open switching platform in the data centreDisaggregated switching and merchant silicon is today's answerBig...
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BT to lab test disaggregated switching against the traditional integrated...
via Flickr © stevepaustin (CC BY-ND 2.0) BT and Dell EMC develop a 'Proof of Concept' for disaggregated switchingTrial to use the sort of ‘open’ network switches currently used in data centresBT to...
View ArticleNokia and the role of Telco Cloud on the path to 5G
Ron Habberman, VP & GM, CloudBand, Applications & Analytics, Nokia What exactly is the “Telco Cloud”? A convergence of services in a hyperscale environment, a distributed cloud where operators...
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