SDN and NFV, if fully realized, can benefit carriers, but that's only part of the story. Real-time visibility is critical to successful SDN and NFV rollouts and a key

While traditional vendors rush to show the world how they can support virtualized functions tuned to their way of doing business, it is unlikely that all vendors will survive

Extending the argument about how NFV can help mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs), we look at how Amazon- or Google-sized MVNOs, in turn, could apply big data to generate

DevOps is about the expression of the system as source code. But networking does not have universal, vendor-agnostic descriptions for VLANs or even routes. Abstractions play a key role

A peek inside the structure of NFV shows that it's primed to be deployed quickly by carriers. That's partly due to ETSI's guidance, but also due to the fact

The major advantage of a logically centralized control plane is improved data visualization which makes intelligent decisions about how to use that resource in support of the applications and

SDN overlays are necessary because networks were static back when IP networking was established. Now, applications can move, and overlays can help the network cope — but overlays come

Detailed, real-time understanding of traffic can be a boon to SDN, which is why network operators can benefit from having deep packet inspection integrated into the virtual switch. The

October has been a thicket of conferences related to SDN and NFV. In this latest NFV blog post, Marc Cohn looks at how operators' thinking around NFV has changed

What's going on inside the ETSI NFV group, and who are these guys, anyway? In this first of a series of posts about NFV, Marc Cohn discusses the group's

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