Network Function Virtualization (NFV)

It is up to the telecommunications service provider that implements virtualization to educate customers on the different options available and ensure that customers have all the information necessary to make an informed decision and use their solution optimally.

Welcome to our weekly wrap-up of telecom software news. Partnerships abound this week as it seems like everybody’s shaking hands with everybody to create some great deals. AT&T was especially busy on this front, furthering its partnership with Amdocs for …

Attempts to unify developer work on software-defined networking and network functions virtualization received a boost this week as the OpenDaylight Project announced that Coriant and ZTE have joined the “community-led and industry-supported open source platform.” The group, which is a …

It’s that time of year again – time to hop into our DeLoreans and make the short leap forward to 2014. What will the coming year bring for telecom? What technologies will make waves and

Sonus Networks has launched its first software-based session border controller (SBC), positioning the company to better compete as networks evolve toward less purpose-built hardware and more software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV). The Sonus SBC SWe is equivalent …

Alcatel-Lucent continues to beat the drum for software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV), with the creation of an open ecosystem for service providers, developers and vendors interested in adopting NFV. The CloudBand Ecosystem Program was initially rolled out …

Several major recent announcements in the SDN space reflect the high level of interest in software-defined networking, and network function virtualization — where software, rather than specialized network hardware, becomes the delivery system for new services and network management. Alcatel-Lucent …

Due to the phenomenon of more and more data and video traveling over telecom networks, operators need to protect and optimize their data services, noted Radware’s (RDWR) David Aviv during a conversation with RCR Wireless News. Aviv noted that the …

Editor’s Note: Welcome to our weekly Reader Forum section. In an attempt to broaden our interaction with our readers, we have created this forum for those with something meaningful to say to the wireless industry. We want to keep this as open …

Global cloud computing traffic will grow 12-fold from 130 exabytes to reach a total of 1.6 zettabytes annually by 2015, which means a 66% compound annual growth rate, according to Cisco’s Global Cloud Index (2010 – 2015) report. In conjunction …