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HP on NFV standards vs. market agility

by Kelly Hill
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Jeff Edlund, CTO of Hewlett-Packard’s Communications and Media Group, spoke with RCR Wireless News about reconciling the work of standards bodies with the need to be responsive to market demand, particularly in the quickly evolving new world of virtualization.
Network function virtualization is an area of considerable interest this year, but the bodies working on defining NFV standards typically move more slowly than the market.
Edlund told RCR Wireless News that HP takes a three-pronged approach: running ahead of the standard in its technology offerings; influencing the standards through participation and submissions to standards bodies such as ETSI; and complying with the standards once they are finalized.
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Kelly Hill reports on network test and measurement, AI infrastructure and regulatory issues, including spectrum, for RCR Wireless News. She began covering the wireless industry in 2005, focusing on carriers and MVNOs, then took a few years’ hiatus and returned to RCR Wireless News to write about heterogeneous networks (remember those?) and network infrastructure. Kelly is an Ohio native with a masters degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, where she focused on science writing and multimedia. She has written for the San Francisco Chronicle, The Oregonian and The Canton Repository. She lives in northern Virginia, not far from Data Center Alley.

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