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  • Light Reading’s NFV and the Data Center- Operator Keynotes, Security & Summary-Part 2

    Light Reading’s NFV and the Data Center- Operator Keynotes, Security & Summary-Part 2

    Introduction: This second article on Light Reading’s NFV-Data Center conference summarizes telco keynote speeches from Orange and NTT-America. We then look at security challenges and wrap up with our summary and conclusions. Part 1. on the Heavy Reading NFV survey results and CenturyLink keynote may be read here. Orange Keynote: Christos Kolias, Sr. Research Scientist,…

  • Highlights of Light Reading’s NFV and the Data Center Conference-Part 1.

    Highlights of Light Reading’s NFV and the Data Center Conference-Part 1.

    Introduction: The telco data center¹(DC) is likely to be the first place network operators deploy Network Virtualization/Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).  That was the opening statement at the Light Reading conference on NFV and the Data Center, held Sept 16, 2014 in Santa Clara, CA.  A network virtualized data center was defined by the conference host…

  • Viodi View – 09/19/14

    Viodi View – 09/19/14

    The best part of conferences are the face-to-face meetings. Next week’s NTCA Fall Conference will provide ample opportunities to meet with Viodi View readers and viewers. One operator I am looking  forward to meeting with is Paul Bunyan Communications. PBC’s had a blockbuster announcement yesterday about their all-fiber, GigaZone offering, which provides symmetric Gigabit speeds at…

  • Autonomous Vehicle View – 09/19/14

    Autonomous Vehicle View – 09/19/14

    This is a biweekly round-up of some of the articles on autonomous vehicles that elicited commentary from this author. Note, with all the buzz about autonomous vehicles, this list isn’t comprehensive. If the model for autonomous vehicle is a service model, however, where the car is owned by a service provider (e.g. Google), then more…

  • AT&T’s “SDN-WAN” as the Network to Access & Deliver Cloud Services

    AT&T’s “SDN-WAN” as the Network to Access & Deliver Cloud Services

    Introduction: For several years, we’ve wondered why there was so many alternative WANs used and proposed to access and deliver cloud computing and storage services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, etc.) for public, private, and hybrid clouds. The list includes: the public Internet (best effort), IP MPLS VPN, other types of IP VPNs, Carrier Ethernet for Private…

  • 2014 Hot Interconnects: Hardware for Software Defined Networks & NFV – Part II.

    2014 Hot Interconnects: Hardware for Software Defined Networks & NFV – Part II.

    Introduction: This closing Hot Interconnects session on  Hardware for Software Defined Networks (SDN) & Network Function Virtualization (NFV) was very informative. It revealed very interesting carrier market research and raised quite a few questions/ open issues related to dedicated network hardware to be used in SDN/NFV networks.  It was not, however, a “Venture Capital Forum” as…