Viodi View – The Bridge Between the Heartland and Silicon Valley

  • Illustrations of Network Virtualization from VMware, ETSI NFV, and Intel Reference Designs

    Illustrations of Network Virtualization from VMware, ETSI NFV, and Intel Reference Designs

    Introduction Our last article described VMware’s view of network virtualization, provided definitions and advantages of same, with different opinions expressed on the main advantage(s).  There was a reference to a follow on article which would illustrate various configurations of network virtualization.  We attempt to do that in this article by describing figures from VMware, ETSI NFV…

  • VMware’s Network Virtualization Poses Huge Threat to Data Center Switch Fabric Vendors

    VMware’s Network Virtualization Poses Huge Threat to Data Center Switch Fabric Vendors

    Introduction: Milin Desai, Director, Product Management at VMware, presented his company’s views on network virtualization, its advantages, current and future products at a late day VMUG session on May 1, 2013 in Santa Clara, CA. The talk on Network Virtualization was in the context of a Software Designed Data Center (SD-DC), where all intra-structure (compute,…

  • Viodi View – 05/03/12

    Viodi View – 05/03/12

    A video travelogue of the telecom industry and its related applications is one way to think about the Viodi View or, at least ViodiTV. The intent of the video interviews and stories from around the country is to augment what is in the news or what should be in the news. The nuggets we get from…

  • Open Network Foundation & Other Organizations; ONF-Optical Transport WG; Ciena & SDN

    Open Network Foundation & Other Organizations; ONF-Optical Transport WG; Ciena & SDN

    1.  ONF relationship to ETSI NFV WG and OpenDaylight Consortium: My last Viodi View article examined the motivation and current work of the ETSI NFV WG and questioned whether service providers might prefer to base “software control” of their networks on that standards initiative, rather than SDN-Open Flow from the ONF. Dan Pitt, ONF Executive Director…

  • “Service Provider SDN” Network Virtualization and the ETSI NFV ISG

    Introduction: This article will examine network operator motivation for “Service Provider SDN,” and then raise the question whether the solution might be some form of Network Virtualization instead of the ONS SDN-Open Flow standard(s).  We reference VMware’s version of Network Virtualization which is currently available and will soon be enhanced.  The ETSI Network Functions Virtualization…

  • Viodi View – 04/22/13

    Viodi View – 04/22/13

    You can’t rely on the Federal Government or Google to build your broadband for you. That was a common sentiment at last week’s 2013 Broadband Communities Summit. Whether Democrat or Republican, better broadband seems to be a bipartisan cause that all can get behind. We had some great interviews with leaders from communities and industry…