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News & Views Most Popular 'Lean NFV' Aims to Reignite Virtualization By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 4/4/2019 Nicira co-founder Scott Shenker and other networking visionaries issue a manifesto for technology they say can jump-start development for network functions virtualization (NFV). Post a Comment \| Read (3 comments) Latest Comment: James_B_Crawshaw "The Lean NFV approach relies on two technically straightforward design decisions:... VMware Sets Sail as a Telco Cloud 'Great Power' By Mitch Wagner, Executive Editor, Light Reading, 3/12/2019 Following deals with AT&T and Vodafone and hardware partnerships, VMware is emerging as a leading telco cloud vendor. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Orange, Vodafone to Unveil Common Approach to NFVi By James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst – Service Provider IT and Automation, Heavy Reading, 2/27/2019 The two operators have been working to develop a number of NFV infrastructure (NFVi) configurations to meet the needs of different types of virtual network function (VNF) deployments. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: lior_mi An important carrier-driven initiative to streamline NFVI efforts! Currently,... Advertisement CPU Selection for uCPE Is About More Than Architecture By Prayson Pate, CTO, Ensemble, ADVA Optical Networking, 2/5/2019 ADVA's Prayson Pate looks at the key considerations when selecting the compute foundations for universal CPE. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: ranhys Hi Prayson, Interesting article. One area that must be discussed as well... Masergy's Ray Watson: Customers Want Security but Pay for Performance By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 12/21/2018 Ray Watson, VP of Global Technology at Masergy, discusses the challenge of securing virtualized telco infrastructure and weighs in on how to handle corporate hacks as well. Post a Comment \| Read (0) ONAP's Casablanca Focuses on Deployability By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 12/4/2018 No romance here, just a software release with practical features to put this automated orchestration platform into use globally. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Nokia Upgrades NFVi for Edge, Containers By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 11/15/2018 Also, for the first time the vendor is directly sourcing OpenStack from its open source community instead of using RedHat's version. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Advertisement SES CEO Plugs Satellite's Role in Global Ecosystem By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 11/14/2018 Satellite access will play a key role going forward in reaching distant locations more quickly than fiber can, providing access and wireless backhaul, enabling disaster recovery and backup and connecting mobile sites including cruise and shipping vessels, airplanes and more, says SES CEO John-Paul Hemingway. Post a Comment \| Read (0) How Red Hat Could Give IBM's Telco Strategy a New Lease of Life By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 11/5/2018 With telco cloud and open source developments playing a key role in network operator strategies, Red Hat's acquisition could bolster IBM's opportunities with communications service provider customers. Post a Comment \| Read (1 Comment) Latest Comment: bosco_pcs This CSP angle is a more substantive than most the run-of-the-mill IBM + Red... RAD: uCPE Is Gateway to IT Service Revenues By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 11/1/2018 Service providers need to broaden their view of what uCPE can offer to include not just VNFs but virtual functions that support basic IT. Post a Comment \| Read (0) MEF CTO: We're Living Up to Agile Promises By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 10/31/2018 Pascal Menezes tells MEF18 audience the organization is dramatically reshaping how it creates and delivers specifications. Post a Comment \| Read (2 comments) Latest Comment: Atlantis-dude a north-west api? CSPs Still Puzzling Over NFV Business Case By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 10/18/2018 TM Forum Digital Transformation Tracker shows diversity of views on virtualization, with larger operators moving forward much faster, and many smaller companies struggling to make it pay. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Colt Ready for Major NFV Push By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 10/12/2018 After years of developments and incremental advances, Colt is set for a major three-stage telco cloud deployment that will be a big step in its migration from a legacy hardware architecture to virtualized functions. Post a Comment \| Read (0) CenturyLink's Kevin McBride: On-Net Buildings & a Better Cloud By Phil Harvey, US Bureau Chief, 10/9/2018 CenturyLink has more than 100,000 on-net, "lit" buildings in its network. That's a massive advantage in a world where new services require the distribution of virtualized network functions as close to customers as possible, according to Kevin McBride, CenturyLink's principal architect of SDN & NVF technologies. Post a Comment \| Read (0) CenturyLink: NFV Meeting (Modest) Expectations By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 10/5/2018 Bill Walker says carrier never expected NFV to cause massive shifts early on, adding that it's replacing legacy at a pace that makes financial sense. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Orange's Yves Bellego on Automation, Virtualization Progress By James Crawshaw, Senior Analyst – Service Provider IT and Automation, Heavy Reading, 10/4/2018 Yves Bellego, director of network strategy at Orange, explains how the operator is approaching automation, how it has developed a data lake and the ongoing challenges associated with NFV. Post a Comment \| Read (0) DT's Clauberg Urges Cloud-Native Caution By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 9/27/2018 The telco cloud community is excited about the impending shift towards cloud-native, but Deutsche Telekom's Axel Clauberg has raised a big warning flag. Post a Comment \| Read (0) ONAP: Time to Move On Up? By Ray Le Maistre, Editor-in-Chief, 9/27/2018 ONAP has been a hot topic at the Open Networking Summit Europe event in Amsterdam and it's clear it has a lot of issues as well as a lot of carrier support. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Telus: Let's Push to Cloud Native Now By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 9/27/2018 NFV isn't where it should be but it's clear that cloud-native approaches offer the promise of automation and scale, says Bryce Mitchell. Post a Comment \| Read (0) Telefónica: OSM Paves the Way for Network Slicing By Carol Wilson, Editor-at-large, 9/26/2018 Telefónica's Antonio Elizondo says its common information model and orchestration layer will enable network slicing for 5G. Post a Comment \| Read (0) More Stories \| News & Views Archive News & Views Archive Message Boards James_B_Crawshaw, 4/5/2019 7:38:20 AM 'Lean NFV' Aims to Reignite Virtualization Re: Lean and mean "The Lean NFV approach relies on two technically straightforward design decisions: using an open-source KV store for coordination within NFV solutions (management components and VNFs), and using a plug-in approach to integration... yarn, 4/4/2019 5:34:43 PM 'Lean NFV' Aims to Reignite Virtualization Re: Why would it work this time? If lean NFV is trying to solve a problem that NFV introduced, than perhaps no NFV is even better? It seems to me that NFV with less specifications will only increase integration complexity because it leaves more open to... [email protected], 4/4/2019 4:48:12 PM 'Lean NFV' Aims to Reignite Virtualization Re: Update on investors in Nefeli Networks The article has been updated to note that NEA is the lead investor in Nefeli, with Danhua Capital (DHVC) and The House Fund also contributing to its $9.2 million round. lior_mi, 3/7/2019 3:58:19 AM Orange, Vodafone to Unveil Common Approach to NFVi Re: Important carrier-driven initiative to streamline NFVI efforts An important carrier-driven initiative to streamline NFVI efforts! Currently, too many NFVI alternatives make transition to NFVI complex and expensive for both vendors and operators. Consolidation into a single simplified... ranhys, 2/5/2019 2:03:04 PM CPU Selection for uCPE Is About More Than Architecture Re: Both CPU and SW need to be considered Hi Prayson, Interesting article. One area that must be discussed as well is the amount of SW that needs to be loaded on these uCPEs. Between OTT VNFs and NFVI OS stacks, performance take a hit and the ability of the... Atlantis-dude, 11/9/2018 8:31:52 PM MEF CTO: We're Living Up to Agile Promises Re: what would be a north-west api? bosco_pcs, 11/5/2018 3:29:34 PM How Red Hat Could Give IBM's Telco Strategy a New Lease of Life Re: Great report w/ originality This CSP angle is a more substantive than most the run-of-the-mill IBM + Red Hat doing hybrid cloud bhah bhah bhah on TV. Those folks are suppose to be analysts who know everything about IBM and Red Hat but they are more... Atlantis-dude, 11/1/2018 1:56:21 AM MEF CTO: We're Living Up to Agile Promises Re: any big carriers that are replacing their internally developed models with these? microcaptechinvestor, 9/4/2018 1:12:10 PM Ericsson Adds Automation Smarts With CENX Acquisition Re: Radcom — leader in service assurance VMware picks up Dell EMC service assurance suite. Now ERIC acquires CENX. Wonder if Radcom (RDCM) is next? Joe Stanganelli, 8/30/2018 11:57:34 PM CSPs Brace for Changes in Assurance Wrought by Virtualization, Automation Re: Automation and virtualization > the growth of virtualized networks will increase the need for proactive, automated testingWhich is kind of funny, considering that the growth of virtualization enables this automation to begin with. It's almost like... microcaptechinvestor, 8/24/2018 1:34:11 PM Telefónica's Elizondo on UNICA's Promise of Network Automation Re: Feed the disruptors These telco's talk a lot, but I'm not seeing a commensurate level of action. At some point, these guys need to sign a contract, and give the disruptors some money. Atlantis-dude, 7/22/2018 2:40:21 PM Juniper's Koley Sees Advantage at the Edge Re: howr they doing compared to vmare which is pushing for nfV. seems more complete Gabriel Brown, 7/3/2018 3:21:39 AM Reliance Industries to Acquire Radisys Re: Re: Reliance to acquire Radisys They're quite different types of companies. Radisys offers software stacks and R&D services. Radcom is more of product and solution company (albeit in software). So I'm not sure there's a direct comparison. microcaptechinvestor, 7/2/2018 2:27:55 PM Reliance Industries to Acquire Radisys Re: Re: Reliance to acquire Radisys The same reason AT&T should acquire RADCOM (RDCM). Works seamlessly with ONAP and OSM. Control the battle field and become a supplier of software to other CSPs. Use vProbes to run new analytics business. Plus you avoid spending... Gabriel Brown, 7/2/2018 10:22:35 AM Reliance Industries to Acquire Radisys Re: Reliance to acquire Radisys Didn't see that coming. My twitter 'hot take' Didn't see that coming. I guess the logic is two-fold: Jio can better "roll its own" and can better monetize it's innovation via the Radisys sales channel https://twitter.c... 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