I’ve talked in the last two blogs about how intent modeling fits the way that SDN and NFV have to work, and also a bit about its relationship with OSS/BSS, TMF, and the ETSI models. Today I’d like to close this series of blogs with a discussion of intent modeling and orchestration. As it happens,…
I talked in my last blog about intent modeling in NFV, and today I want to look at extending intent modeling in two directions—into SDN (which is easy) and into management (which is less than easy). I’m not going to recap the theory of intent models beyond a sentence, so if you didn’t read yesterday’s…
A piece of good news on the NFV front is that the ETSI ISG is moving toward consideration of intent modeling as the basis for a number of important interfaces. I’ve been advocating intent modeling for several years now, so obviously I’m pleased with the move. You should be too, and everyone else in both…
Sometimes our technologies are more defined by the stories told about them than about their realities. SDN and NFV are no exceptions, and the full scope of mythology for either would take a lot more than a single article to cover. Fortunately we can narrow the scope of myths (and blogs) by focusing on what…
SDN and NFV are going to change infrastructure policy, if they succeed. I’ve blogged about that before. They’ll also likely change the services offered by operators. The notion of service agility as a benefit demands something to jump from (which we have; the present) and to (what we’d have to define). I’d like to think…
If SDN and NFV are going to create market waves, the obvious question is whether vendors are going to ride them or be swept away. Given the immature state of both technologies, there’s not a lot of clear indicators to read on that topic, but there do seem to be a few signposts emerging from…
You can hardly pick up (virtually) an online publication these days without seeing an extravagant market forecast on NFV. I don’t have much faith in forecasts in general; they usually turn out to be aimed at validating the largest market possible because the buyers of the report are usually vendors. NFV is particularly problematic, though,…
The notion that things are changing, perhaps a bit too fast for comfort, is hardly a modern phenomenon nor one confined to tech. One of my favorite poems (Arthur Guieterman’s On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness) starts with the provocative line “The tusks that clashed in mighty brawls of mastodons…are billiard balls.” Change, and not…
I had an interesting exchange with a planner in a mid-sized carrier, and got some insight into how network operators are seeing SDN. Coming from an exchange with some other operators, my contact gave me a tutorial on the “models” of deployment the operators are seeing as promising. Some are familiar, and some approaches we…
VNFs, meaning virtual network functions, are important to NFV. Without them there’s no possible business justification to be had, no matter how good our infrastructure or orchestration and management might be. Well, we all know there are supposed to be five stages of grief. I contend that there are five stages of VNF too, and…