I doubt anyone would disagree if I said that we had a strong tendency to oversimplify the impacts of changes or new concepts in networking. It’s a combination of the desire by network users to focus on what they want not how to get it, and the desire of the media to turn every development…
John Chambers said a while ago that the “white box” players were dead and that Cisco had at least helped to kill them. This is the sort of Chamberesque statement that always gets ink, but we always have to dig into those sorts of statements. “News” means “novelty” not “truth”. The whole white-box thing was…
HP ranks among, if not on top of, my selection of bona fide NFV providers. Their OpenNFV architecture is comprehensive in its support for operations integration and legacy device control, both of which are critical to making an early NFV business case. Now they’re taking on another issue, one that’s been raised in a number…
I remember a Cisco before John Chambers but I suspect most in the industry today do not. For those people it might seem a frightening prospect. For some who have been disappointed by Cisco’s seemingly lackluster support of new initiatives like SDN and NFV, it may seem like an opportunity. Obviously we have to see…
It’s nice to have a sounding-board news trigger to launch a discussion from, and Oracle has obligingly provided me that with its Evolved Communications Application Server. This is a product that I believe is driven by the same industry trends that Alcatel-Lucent’s Rapport is, and potentially could deliver services that could compete with Google’s Fi. …
In my blog yesterday I talked about the need for something “above” SDN and NFV, and in the last two blogs about the need for an architecture to define the way that future cloud and NGN goals could be realized. What I’d like to do to end this week is flesh out what both those…
Yesterday I blogged about the current state of our technology-side revolutions in telecom—SDN, NFV, and the cloud. All three of these have taken a bottom-up approach to solving the problems of the industry, and while it’s premature to say that any have failed it’s certain that none have succeeded either. The reason why, I suggest,…
Yesterday I blogged about the current state of our technology-side revolutions in telecom—SDN, NFV, and the cloud. All three of these have taken a bottom-up approach to solving the problems of the industry, and while it’s premature to say that any have failed it’s certain that none have succeeded either. The reason why, I suggest,…
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is one of several technologies that operators are hoping will improve their profit on infrastructure investment. NFV itself was launched to reduce capex by substituting generic hosted functions for embedded-appliance-based functions. NFV’s benefit expectations have evolved since to include, and even emphasize, operations efficiency and service agility. The evolution of expectations…
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is one of several technologies that operators are hoping will improve their profit on infrastructure investment. NFV itself was launched to reduce capex by substituting generic hosted functions for embedded-appliance-based functions. NFV’s benefit expectations have evolved since to include, and even emphasize, operations efficiency and service agility. The evolution of expectations…