In 2020, what will “the network” or “the Internet” look like, in terms of infrastructure? I’ve gotten that question a lot lately, as well as the question of whether it’s SDN or NFV or the cloud, or mobility or maybe content or even Cisco, that’s driving the evolution. Of course, people also wonder who will…
One of the interesting issues that I encountered at the HP Discover 2014 event this week was that of “carrier grade”, and I even had someone make a related comment on a prior blog of mine. For ages, people have talked about how important it was to be “carrier grade” and offer “five-nines” reliability. NFV…
I’ve blogged before about HP’s OpenNFV strategy, important IMHO because it’s not only from perhaps the most inherently credible of all possible NFV sources but also the functionally most complete—at least in terms of planned features. I’ve attended the HP Discover 2014 event in Barcelona this week, spoken to all the key HP NFV people,…
I blogged a year ago that optimum implementation of NFV could create between 80,000 and 130,000 new data centers, making NFV potentially the largest source of new server and data center component installations. There is little doubt that NFV could touch every aspect of virtually every service, so there’s lots of reasons for operators to…
For months I’ve been following the evolution of HP’s NFV strategy. I’m happy to say that on December 2nd and 3rd I’ll be attending the HP Discover 2014 event in Barcelona for an even deeper dive. While there I’m part of a panel entitled “The New Business of the Network: Network Functions Virtualization” (9:30 AM…
If we still had typewriters these days, I’d bet that the typewriter vendors would be claiming support for NFV because they put “N”, “F”, and “V” keys on their keyboards. A few might even add an extra “V” key (we have “VNFs” in “NFV” implementations, and call what they do “advanced NFV support”. It’s no…
Cisco has for years been two companies—one that generated most of the revenue but was focused on the clearly threatened switching/routing space, and another that aimed at high-flying and largely unproven opportunities in “emerging technologies”. The difference has been stark enough that Street activists have called for a breakup of Cisco so the speculative urges…
Of all the components called out in the ETSI NFV E2E architecture, it may be that the most important is the VNF Manager or VNFM. As the dialog on NFV advanced, there’s been a shift of benefit focus from savings in capex to improvements in operations efficiency and service agility. In addition, the reliability, availability,…
Alcatel-Lucent announced last week that it was getting into the virtual router business, and at the same time announced an evolution to their Nuage SDN platform strategy. The Nuage stuff it good; some of what they did is what Alcatel-Lucent and others should have done from the first with SDN. Some of it also creates…
The media is all agog over the decision by the President to endorse a path to neutrality that would include reclassifying ISP services as Title II, meaning making the ISPs common carriers in terms of the Telecom Act. I’ve read that it means the ISPs would become public utilities, or that they’d then have to…