Tag: NFV
The promise of telco virtualisation is that carriers can and will provide services comparable to Google and Amazon. With virtualised network architecture, a telco can launch a service in a couple of months and can even become a marketplace of services such as video streaming, cloud services, security and firewall services. According to VMWare’s Shekar […]
I recently sat through seven hours of discussion on the state of play with SDN and NFV and I came away with a dramatically different attitude. Software defined and managed networks are actually being rolled out and networks are actually being virtualized. Honest. That was the good news from the industry experts present – the […]
The global operator community continues to identify new use cases and wider benefits associated with virtualised network architectures. The move from physical network point solutions to agile, flexible and cost effective virtual systems is widely acknowledged as a strategic and commercial imperative. Overhauling network architectures will take time however, as operators are forced to overcome […]
Communications service providers (CSPs) have been successfully launching and generating revenue from messaging services for years. Messaging is still a major source of revenue, but there is increasing competition from cloud based “freemium” messaging solutions and over the top providers (OTTs). Because of this, both mobile and fixed CSPs have taken a number of steps […]
From 2G to 3G and on to LTE, each significant milestone in the mobile lifecycle has increased the complexity of managing networks. The shift to LTE has had the biggest impact to date, putting additional pressure on operators to deliver a consistent quality of experience to a user base now heavily reliant on data services. […]
Amongst all the hype and general hoohah surrounding NFV, VNS and every other acronym to do with virtualisation, we decided to catch up with Openet’s Technical Director, Gerry Donohoe (GD) to find out what is actually going on. DisruptiveViews (DV): When we spoke with Niall Norton not so long ago, he said that you haven’t […]
Report from the Annual Policy Management Conference in Berlin. Conferences used to be good. Then they got rubbish and the numbers dried up. Operators didn’t want to spend money paying for people to attend lots of conferences. Vendors became fed up of using their marketing budgets to go and talk to other vendors. Some specialist telecoms conferences […]
Openet, supplier of real-time BSS (business support systems), today announced the global availability of its free of charge VNF Lifecycle Manager software. Openet’s NFV software, named Weaver, is now available to operators, system integrators and VNF/NFV vendors as a community edition. NFV will see the need to manage carrier grade production solutions across distributed systems at […]
Mobile World Congress provides a good opportunity to assess the state of network virtualisation (NFV) in the telecom market. This year, it provided Analysys Mason with a prime opportunity to verify three central theses in our upcoming report on network orchestration: Network equipment providers (NEPs) are ahead of other vendor types in gaining commercial […]
Telstra today launched its first software-defined networking products for Australian customers, developed with Cisco, that lets businesses instantly deploy and configure services over Telstra’s networks. These advances are the result of a recent partnership with Cisco and deliver a platform and products, using Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualisation (NFV), that transforms the […]
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