Oracle reported their numbers on Wednesday, and the results weren’t pretty by Street standards. The company missed pretty much across the board, and in particular in Europe. Oracle blamed foreign exchange for much of their problem, but the general financial-industry consensus is that it’s deeper than that, including dragging hardware, poor execution, and perhaps a…
I’ve blogged now about “edge-based” and “interior” NFV service opportunities, and in the latter I noted that I was going to treat the case of “interior nodes” separately. Many of you will probably understand why that is the case, but I hope to show everyone why nodal services are different, and perhaps generate some discussion…
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…