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Analysis - NFV

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    WAN Services to Drive NFV Revenue

    User feedback, both through primary interviews and SDxCentral surveys, indicates that both enterprises and service providers are interested in network functions virtualization (NFV).
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    Telecom Opens Up To Containers

    Service providers are starting to embrace container technology to deliver more dynamic, distributed applications
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    $2.75B Could Be Too Low for LSO

    In March, The Rayno Report told you about an exciting new market developing for service-provider software called Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO). We projected the total opportunity for LSO technologies
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    CrowdChat: Slowly but Surely, NFV Is Coming

    The Rayno Report held another one of our social events on CrowdChat, LinkedIn, and Twitter on July 27. The topic was #NFV, or Network Functions Virtualization. The event covered
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    UBIqube Gets Korean R&D Gig

    Scrappy, Dublin-based startup UBIqube has landed a nice research-and-development gig in South Korea. The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) has picked UBIqube’s MSActivator Framework as a technology for
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    Alcatel-Lucent Automates Bandwidth With NSP

    Alcatel-Lucent today introduced its Network Services Platform (NSP), a Software Defined Networking (SDN) provisioning and control system that automatically manages and balances bandwidth and network services over several different
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    Netcracker 10: Analytics, Orchestration & Giraffes

    BOSTON -- NEC's Netcracker division today released an upgrade of its telecom software suite, Netcracker 10, which is tackling the evolving convergence of Operations Support Systems (OSS), Billing Support
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    Verizon's SDN Catchup Falls Short

    Verizon today announced its long-awaited Software Defined Network (SDN) strategy, which includes almost all of its incumbent equipment suppliers but lacks details about how this strategy will be executed.
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    Security is Failing -- Can the Cloud Respond?

    As the shares of cybersecurity companies zoom to new heights, there may be good reason: The topic of information and network security remains the number one issue for customers
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    VMware's Appenzeller: VMs Can Virtualize Security

    TIBURON, Calif. — Not surprisingly, a VMware technology executive says that container technology is not a threat to VMware's virtual machine (VM) franchise, because customers are going to use
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    The RR Interview: Martin Taylor, CTO, Metaswitch

    Martin Taylor, the Chief Technical Officer of Metaswitch Networks, has been working in software protocols and networking for more than 20 years. He joined Metaswitch in 2004 after pioneering
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    Alcatel-Lucent-Nokia: Snoozer for Losers

    (Warning: Disturbing and potentially offensive analysis of the telco hardware business ahead -- spanning four entire pages! Sedatives or perhaps stimulants may be needed, depending on whom you work
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    MEF, TM Forum Team on Service Orchestration

    It's happening! Two large organizations supporting service-provider technology efforts, the MEF and the TM Forum, have agreed to collaborate on programs to push new technology for orchestrating and coordinating
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    Affirmed Affirms NFV Trend With 23 Customers

    Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is gaining traction in mobile networks, and mobile infrastructure startup Affirmed Networks is emerging as one of the leaders.
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    Learn More about #Whitebox on April 15

    The white-box world is growing in influence, so it's time to learn about what applications and use cases can take it to the next level. We'll be covering this
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    Security: The Next SDN Frontier

    Security is emerging as one of Software Defined Networking's most important applications. In fact, it has the potential to combat the surging threat of cyber attacks on cloud services.