The issues I’ve raised on the difficulties operators experience making a business case for SDN and NFV are increasingly echoed by other sources, so I hope that at this point most objective people believe there is a problem here. One question, then, is how business-case difficulties might impact SDN and NFV deployment and the future…
Verizon’s entry into the IoT space, via its “ThingSpace” API offering, has been covered by Light Reading and also released directly by Verizon. The company is also opening its analytics engine for IoT use and making some network and pricing changes to accommodate IoT. Verizon’s launch presentation on IoT properly characterizes IoT as a “Tower…
Federation is an important topic in both SDN and NFV for a number of reasons, but it’s not clear that the standards processes for either SDN or NFV are really moving to define a reasonable strategy. The issues of federation will eventually have to be faced—there are some indications that vendors are jumping out to…
Before I took off on my vacation (just completed), I asked a bunch of my CFO contacts to review a document I prepared that outlined potential sources of NFV (or SDN) benefits. They came back with some suggested changes and additions, and the result was a document with about 20 categories. I’d also outlined some…
Somebody told me last week that network virtualization was well underway, which surprised me because I don’t think it’s really even begun. The difference in view lies in two factors—is “acceptance” equivalent to deployment and is a different way of doing the same thing the same as doing something different. The issue we have with…
You all probably know how I love blog topics that present a contrast, and today we have a nice opportunity for one with the quarterly results from IBM and Juniper. The former disappointed the Street and the latter made them happy. The former has touted transition and the latter seems to be staying the course. …
Dell’s decision to acquire EMC has raised a lot of questions among fans of both companies, and there’s certainly a new competitive dynamic in play with the move. The most dramatic aspect of the deal might turn out to be the impact it has on the cloud, SDN, and NFV positioning of the combined company. …
OpenStack has been seen by most as an essential element in any NFV solution, but lately there have been questions raised on whether OpenStack can meet the grade, meaning “carrier-grade” or “five-nines”. Light Reading did an article on this, and Stratus recently published an NFV PoC that they say proves that OpenStack VIM mechanisms are…
One of the things that came out of Light Reading’s NFV Everywhere event was a sense that the critical MANO element of NFV has somehow lost its luster. There have been some articles on that topic, and one of the most active members of the NFV ISG has posted a blog as well. IMHO, the…
According to a recent piece on SDxCentral, “Operators don’t want the TM Forum to get lost in NFV technicalities. They want the focus on making money.” That’s an interesting and insightful couple of sentences, for several reasons, and it may be a signal of a sea change in NFV. The obvious question is who’s going…