We shouldn’t think of NFV as merely porting a cloud to the telcos. We need to understand that true NFV won't happen until we connect all the entities involved

Big technology shifts like cloud take at least 10 years. That’s why the shift to the telco cloud, led by NFV, will require at least a decade of patience.

The telco NFV cloud has different characteristics from the enterprise cloud – with a higher emphasis on reliability, connectivity, and specific applications.

The key to success of NFV will come soon as operators evaluate the benefits of the NFV business transformation in early rollouts including vCPE.

The data center is driving toward a more software-centric security model and security performance in NFV will be key.

Huawei says it now has more than 50,000 patents.

IT experts are increasingly looking at securing the cloud using SDN technologies, which add policy awareness and features such as microsegmentation.

Hardware acceleration can boost adoption of network function virtualization (NFV) technology by providing a more powerful platform.

Big data and analytics are transforming Network Virtualization (NV) by taking advantage of new sources of data and providing analytics tools that can link to automation in software-defined networks

With higher traffic demands on the S/Gi-LAN in mobile networks, converged platforms will help reduce the costs of processing IP traffic.

The combination of new network hardware acceleration techniques and SDN is driving a new era of networking.

Virtualization of the S/Gi-LAN in mobile networks through the use of converged platforms can improve security.

While 5G standards or definitions don’t yet exist, it’s becoming clear that the technology has the chance to become a big driver of the network virtualization and software-defined networking

New networking approaches such as SDN and NFV will require a balance between hardware and software.

With higher traffic demands on the SGi/Gi-LAN in mobile networks, the move towards converged platforms enables increased efficiency in processing IP traffic.

Neutron networking open-source options are expanding for OpenStack, but users are still relying heavily on proprietary network virtualization solutions.

The P4 language is one of several new chip technologies emerging to boost performance in NFV and bring it up to the high standards of service provider networks.

EMA research has found the majority of early adopters have management challenges with NV and SDN.

New technology is emerging, designed to improve performance in NFV to bring it up to the high standards of service-provider networks.

High hopes about for network automation, but what's realistic?

While telecommunications carriers are no doubt at the forefront of NFV, it turns out that more traditional enterprise IT organizations are not very far behind.

Huawei is gaining share in the global technology market and beginning to use open source as a strategic weapon.

The threat of white box switches has cast a shadow over big network equipment vendors for years, as the combination of Moore’s Law and economies of scale provides merchant

SDxCentral contributing analyst, Lee Doyle, takes a look at how service providers are building on the business benefits for NFV and the full list of factors involved.