The issue of operationalizing next gen networks and services is critical for operators, and it’s thus fitting to close this week’s review of the Verizon architecture with comments on OSS/BSS integration. There are two questions to be answered; can the approach deal with the efficiency/agility goals that will have to be met to justify SDN/NFV,…
It has always been my view that NFV would be better and more efficient if there were a common modeling approach from the top layer of services to the bottom layer of infrastructure. I still feel that way, but I have serious doubts on whether such a happy situation can now arise. The service-centric advance…
Getting closer to the buyer and to the dollars is always good advice in positioning a product or service. For network operators, that means looking at what services they sell, and for network operators reviewing the potential of SDN/NFV, it means looking at how these new technologies can improve their services. But “services” doesn’t necessarily…
Verizon has just released a white paper on its SDN/NFV strategy, developed with the help of a number of major vendors, and the paper exposes a number of interesting insights into Tier One next-gen network planning. Some are more detailed discussions of things Verizon has revealed in the past, and some new and interesting. This…
I got back from a holiday to a flood of data from both enterprises and network operators/service providers—the former group focusing on cloud and network service views, and the latter group focusing on NFV. Because all the data is so interesting I thought it was important to get it into a blog ASAP, so here…
I had a very interesting talk with the MEF and with their new CTO (Pascal Menezes), covering their “Third Network”, “Lifecycle Service Orchestration” and other things. If you’ve read my stuff before, you know that there are many aspects of their strategy that I think are insightful, even compelling. I’m even more sure about that…
You can certainly tell from the media coverage that progress on NFV isn’t living up to press expectations. That’s not surprising on two fronts; first, press expectations border on an instant gratification fetish that nothing could live up to, and second that transformation of a three-trillion-dollar industry with average capital cycles of almost six years…
Ericsson has made some pretty smart moves in the past, long before their smartness was obvious to the market. They may have made another one with their acquisition of NodePrime, an hyperscale data center management company that could be a stepping stone for Ericsson to supremacy in a number of cloud-related markets, including of course…
The sweet spot for NFV so far has been virtual CPE (vCPE) and the sweet spot for vCPE has been managed services. Nearly every operator out there has managed services ambitions at some level, but at least three out of four admit that they’re planning in a more hopeful-than-helpful sense. Is there a right, or…
Last week there were a number of stories out on virtual reality (VR). It’s not that the notion is new; gaming developers have tried to deliver on it for a decade or more, and Google’s Glass was an early VR-targeted product. One interesting one was a joke. On April 1st, Google spoofed the space with…