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Rift.io announces ‘hyperscale’ NFV platform
via Flickr © Robert Scoble (CC BY 2.0) NFV startup armed with $16 million Claims full open source NFV platformBenefits to flow from 'hyperscale' cloud implementationNFV “stealth” startup, Rift.io,...
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Overcoming data centre scalability problems for NFV
via Flickr © dvanzuijlekom (CC BY-SA 2.0) Project Calico v1.0 out, designed to tackle scalability problems for NFV and data centersCalico 1.0 proven on an OpenStack cluster of 10,000 virtual machines...
View ArticleGoing 'cloud native'
Chloe Jian Ma, Senior Director, Cloud Market Development, Mellanox Technologies Telcos are very much in the driving seat as far as NFV is concerned and they are pushing vendors hard to provide...
View ArticleHigh Velocity Clouds" will propel NFV to stratospheric heights
Jai Menon, VP and Chief Research Officer, Head of Dell Research, Dell Whilst NFV is predominantly applicable to the telecoms industry, it is more than that - especially to the server community. Jai...
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Billowing cloud infrastructure services market expanding by 52 per cent
via Flickr © decidida (CC BY-ND 2.0) The telecoms market may be afflicted by anemic (or no) growth in many of its most important segments, but it’s a different story over at the cloud infrastructure...
View ArticleTelco Cloud's Role on the Path to 5G
Panel Discussion With adoption of NFV maturing and the industry eye being cast towards 5G along with the opportunities and challenges that it brings, some CommSPs are now looking to telco cloud as the...
View ArticleIs the industry spending too much time coding, not enough time writing specs?
Shahar Steiff, AVP New Technologies, PCCW Global With so much focus on Network Functions Virtualisation, is it time for an NFV reality check? Will NFV and SDN really solve all the problems faced by...
View ArticleEricsson stacks up its open partners with Red Hat
Susan James, Head of Product Line NFVi, Ericsson Ericsson recently announced a highly significant broadening of its relationship with Red Hat, arguably the most prominent promoter of OpenStack for...
View ArticleWhat telcos really think about NFVi
Roz Roseboro, Senior Analyst, Heavy Reading A survey on NFV infrastructure, commissioned by Red Hat and undertaken by Heavy Reading, produced some interesting findings. Senior Analyst Roz Roseboro...
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Blog: Let’s drop ‘virtualization’ from NFV and move on
Here’s an idea. Why not get rid of ‘virtualization’ when we’re talking about next generation telco networks? Not the technique, you understand, just the word.Why? Because there are signs that its...
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Operators are sitting on golden eggs but need help to hatch them
via Flickr © erix! (CC BY 2.0) Can you future-proof the future?Or is hype obscuring the reality of network transformation?Operators have many advantages but don't always play to themConnectivity is...
View ArticleNFV interoperability in a muti-vendor, multi-network, multi service environment
Phil McKinney, President & CEO, CableLabs CableLabs is the research arm of the cable TV industry and part of its remit is to act as a trusted ombudsman and third-party arbitrator examining new...
View ArticleMoving MEF up the network stack
Pascal Menezes, CTO, MEF As the first CTO of MEF, former Microsoft guru, Pascal Menezes, is leveraging the organisation's strong heritage in Ethernet technology as it focuses on SDN and NFV and its...
View ArticleOpenStack recognises that containers, bare metal and virtual machines are on...
Malini Bhandaru, Principal Engineer, Cloud Architect. Intel Corporation Cloud Native is all about building applications for the cloud from the very outset of any project - be they for enterprise or...
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With 5G looming and big bucks promised, which network operators are best...
via Flickr © 401(K) 2013 (CC BY-SA 2.0) 5G Revenues expected to hit $269 billion in 2025Vendors and telcos have been involved in a testing frenzyThe ones with the most alliances and test partnerships...
View ArticleWhen collaborating upstream it’s useful to speak the same language
Susan James, Head of Product Line NFVi, Ericsson Susan talks to Martyn Warwick about Ericsson’s partnership with Red Hat and on the dynamics of collaborating with multiple ‘upstream communities’ for...
View ArticleWhy is "cloud native" so critical to the future of the world's CSPs?
Martin Taylor, CTO, Metaswitch Metaswitch has the only complete VoLTE solution built from the ground up using cloud native microservices methodologies deployable within highly-orchestrated lightweight...
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The Open RAN (ORAN) Alliance formed to lever open 5G for ‘other’...
The Open RAN (ORAN) Alliance formed to lever open 5G for ‘other’ technologies?Cross-industry group formed to foster vertical industry support via 5G Slicing The GSMA’s get rich slow schemeAutomating...
View ArticleMetaswitch: The importance of cloud native for 5G
Ian Maclean, Chief Marketing Officer, Metaswitch As communications service providers (CSPs) go through their digital transformation, they are exploring ways to tap into new revenue streams and deliver...
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Tackling the stateless cloud problem in 5G
via Flickr © Foxcroft Academy (CC BY 2.0) 5G will rely on common external data management...... and requires a cloud database that treats every subscriber and network function as a serviceOpenwave...
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