Think network hardware is going great? Look at Cisco’s results, and at Juniper’s decision to push even harder in security (which by the way is also a hot spot for Cisco’s quarter). Look at the M&A in the vendor space. Most of all, look at everyone’s loss of market share to Huawei. USTelecom Daily Lead’s…
It would be fair for you to wonder whether the notion of intent-based service modeling for transformed telco infrastructure is anything more than a debate on software architecture. In fact, that might be a very critical question because we’re really not addressing, so far, the execution of the control software associated with virtualization in carrier…
Yesterday the “New ONF” formed by the union of the old ONF and ON.Labs announced its new mission and its roadmap to achieving it. I’m a guy who has worked in standards for well over two decades, and the experience has made me perhaps more cynical about standards than I am about most things (which,…
One of the joke statements of the virtual age is “You can’t send a real tech to fix a virtual problem!” Underneath the joke is a serious question, which is just what happens to test and measurement in a virtual world? Virtualization opens two issues—how do you test the virtual processes and flows, and how…
I can vividly recall one of my early telco transformation meetings. It was just after NFV had launched, but before any real work had been done. At the meeting, two of the telco experts sitting next to each other expressed their views on OSS/BSS. One wanted to transform it, retaining as much as possible of…
If you like the idea of somehow creating a union between CORD and ECOMP then the next obvious question is just where that union has to start. The answer, in my view, isn’t in a place where both architectures contribute something that could be united, but where neither does enough and external unionizing forces are…
In the last several blogs I developed the theme of making NFV relevant and exploring the relationship between the drivers of “carrier cloud”. One point that I raised, but without numerical detail, is the contribution that NFV would actually make to carrier cloud. If you look at the model results, there’s a firm connection with…
The concept of carrier cloud has taken some hits over the last months. Media coverage for network functions virtualization (NFV) shows a significant negative shift in the attitude of operators over the progress of NFV. Verizon sold off the cloud business it purchased, and is now reported to be selling off its cloud computing business. …
I said in a number of blogs last week that 5G wasn’t an automatic savior for SDN and NFV. It’s not that neither concept could support 5G, or even that 5G wouldn’t be better if SDN and NFV were incorporated. There are instead two critical truths to deal with. First, there isn’t anything currently in…
Continuing on my recent theme of 5G assessment, I want to look today at the relationship between 5G, SDN, and NFV. Because 5G evolution is considered a given in the industry, many vendors in the SDN and NFV space have been eager to link their wares to 5G as a means of insuring they’re not…