I blogged yesterday about the vCPE model of services, talking both about its role in NFV and how it might have a life outside/beyond NFV. Some of you were interested in what might be said about other new service models, and in particular how “interior” rather than edge models could work. My information on this…
Virtual CPE (vCPE) is one of the hotter topics these days, and even though it has its roots in NFV the concept seems to be taking some tottering steps on its own. As it does, it may be exposing some evolutionary trends that could supplement or replace aspects of the NFV value proposition, and even…
For those who, like me, find the current NFV activity diffused and missing the point more often than not, the prospect of yet another body with their fingers in the pie stirs mixed emotions. The New IP Agency (NIA) was launched at the Light Reading Big Telecom Event last week with (according to the group)…
NFV is going to require deploying VNFs on something; the spec calls the resource pool to be used “NFV Infrastructure” or NFVI. Obviously most NFVI is going to be data centers and servers and switches, but not all of it, and even where the expected data centers are deployed there’s the question of how many,…
NFV is going to require deploying VNFs on something; the spec calls the resource pool to be used “NFV Infrastructure” or NFVI. Obviously most NFVI is going to be data centers and servers and switches, but not all of it, and even where the expected data centers are deployed there’s the question of how many,…
I blogged yesterday about the need to create mission-specific “upperware” to facilitate the development of new services and experiences. The point that was that NFV is not enough for that; you have to be able to develop and organize functional atoms for assembly according to some application model or all you’re doing is pushing VMs…
I blogged yesterday about the need to create mission-specific “upperware” to facilitate the development of new services and experiences. The point that was that NFV is not enough for that; you have to be able to develop and organize functional atoms for assembly according to some application model or all you’re doing is pushing VMs…
At Light Reading’s Big Telecom Event, Cisco SVP of Global Service Provider Delivery Cedrik Neike said that telcos have to transform themselves into platform providers. Well, telcos would agree at least that they have to transform themselves into something other than what they are now—connection and transport providers. Maybe platform providers would be better, but…
The OPNFV project released its first (“Arno”) build, and it may be more noteworthy for how the pieces it contains were selected than for its functionality. There’s logic to how OPNFV did its work, but there are also risks that its order and timing of releases pose. Arno is a platform that includes the infrastructure…
There are a lot of ways to get to LA from NYC and a lot of ways to realize the service agility benefits expected for NFV. Some paths are likely better than others in both these examples, and in both cases it may be necessary to travel a little to know what the best choice…