Telefónica says the business transformation brought by NFV need not be traumatic
Francisco-Javier Ramón Salguero, Head of Network Virtualisation, GCTO Unit, Telefónica Many of the underlying technologies of NFV have now been fixed and aspects of the technology are ready for tests...
View ArticleNFV provider community is moving its focus from saving money to making money
Sandra Rivera, Senior Director, Market Development, Intel Much of the early focus of network transformation work was on lowering the total cost of ownership, mainly through open savings and better...
View ArticleAn Ethernet for everything: now it's Cloud
Vinay Saxena, Distinguished Technologist, Chief Architect NFV Hewlett-Packard Co. Vinay talks to Martyn Warwick about the establishment of CloudEthernet Forum (CEF), designed to foster a set of...
View ArticleHow will telcos buy and build NFV infrastructure?
Martin Taylor, CTO, Metaswitch NFV is a journey that could take as long as ten years, but in these first two years the main players in the supply chain have already likely emerged. But the big...
View ArticleIntel and HP explain how OPNFV can facilitate virtualisation in the network
Sandra Rivera, Senior Director, Market Development, Intel and Prodip Sen, CTO, Network Functions Virtualization, Hewlett-Packard Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV) is hosted by the Linux Foundation as an...
View ArticleSDN and OpenFlow: progress, controversies and prognostication
Dan Pitt, Executive Director, Open Networking Foundation Tremendous progress is being made in SDN and OpenFlow, with more and more products appearing, especially hardware-based OpenFlow switching...
View ArticleSK Telecom produces the most complex POC
DK Lee, Manager/PhD., Network Technology R&D Centre, Core Network Lab, SK Telecom and Amjad Shah, EMEA, NFV Sales Lead, Hewlett-Packard Co SK Telecom is credited with producing the most complex...
View ArticleHP and the Cloudification of network functions
Saar Gillai, SVP/COO, HP Cloud & GM, NFV, Hewlett-Packard Today a lot of network functions are run as monolithic devices. NFV is really about the "cloud-ification" of those functions. Once you...
View ArticleCrunch time for operators says Huawei: move forward to lower costs and fast...
Mr. Jeffery Gao, CMO, Huawei Western Europe, Huawei Huawei wants to contribute to the future of SDN and NFV, Jeffery tells Martyn Warwick. But it's crunch time. Telecom operators must choose what to...
View ArticleVirtualising business services for telcos
Nick St. Pierre, AVP, Office of the CTO, Sandvine Sandvine is one of the Intel Network Builders winners from the IDF developer event in September. It has demonstrated a virtualised appliance space,...
View ArticleDell says NFV takes development away from specialist network engineers and...
Dr. Jai Menon, VP and Chief Research Officer, Dell Virtualisation in the data centre took about 8-10 years, so don't expect NFV to transform the network in just a few years. That said, SDN and NFV...
View ArticleMetaswitch looks to offload router functions
Andy Randall, GM Networking Business Unit, Metaswitch In the long term, the intelligence of the network will move out of dedicated devices and into software, and this also applies to routers....
View ArticleUsing SDN to provide orchestrated managed LAN solutions
Matt Davy, Co-Founder and Principal Solutions Architect, Tallac Networks Many SMEs want to hand off the management of their LANs, which is where SDN solutions can be effective. A cloud-hosted...
View ArticleHow telcos can use NFV to face the OTT challenge
Michael Kay, VP Business Development, Procera Procera is seeing several transformations in the NFV space. For example, fixed operators are able to transform their CPE infrastructure into a virtual...
View ArticleNokia virtualises network functions for mobile operators
Josef Urban, Head of Software and Security Research, Nokia Networks Nokia is developing cloud, SDN and NFV in the context of mobile networks. As an example of how operators are requesting more...
View ArticleBrocade's approach to "show me" software defined networking
Andrew Coward, VP Service Provider Strategy, Brocade In the carrier space, service providers need instructions as well as components for SDN. Just having software is not adequate, you have to...
View ArticleTransforming Colt's business to deploy complex SDN and NFV solutions
Nicolas Fischbach, Director of Strategy and Architecture Innovation, Colt The industry is starting to see deployments of SDN and NFV in live deployments. Colt launched a vCPE a few years ago,...
View ArticleCoriant uses SDN to help telcos monetise their network assets
Stu Benington, Vice President, Cloud & SDN Business Unit, Coriant NFV is a relatively straightforward transformation, but SDN - at least outside of the data centre - is a little more abstract in...
View ArticleSDN intelligent aggregation for carrier ethernet services
James Buchanan, SVP PLM, ADVA Optical Networking ADVA is demonstrating Intelligent aggregation, using its carrier ethernet switch paired with Metaswitch's control protocols, using SDN. It allows...
View ArticleAlcatel-Lucent leverages its cloud expertise with NFV deployments
Guy Shemesh, Senior Director, Cloudband Business Unit, Alcatel-Lucent In the past 12 months, the conversation has moved from the "why" to the "how" and "when". Most of the large operators want to move...
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