BT's 'Third Way' for NFV
11/11/2014BT's director of research and technology, Chris Bilton, taks about the 'third way' in which network operators can manage their next-generation assets in a world of SDN and NFV.
BT's director of research and technology, Chris Bilton, taks about the 'third way' in which network operators can manage their next-generation assets in a world of SDN and NFV.
Liked Chris Bilton's candor in challenges of SDN-ization of BT networking via putting human face on advanced technology progress. Tackling the repurposing IT and NOC human capital, at the expense of some lengthy educational curves, is the foremost challenge for the dawn of NVF-driven SDN. I like his cautious optimism, but the choice of words like "potentially relatively straightforward blend" of people and technology in the 'third way' does not give me enough confidence that BT actually has a plan of approach the aforementioned challenge. However, for starters, brave of BT to acknowledge and stare the problem-devil in the face!
Misha
This is all as much a people challenge as a tech challenge...