A conversation with Satyendra “Tripps” Tripathi, Director New Tech Prod Dev Eng, Services Design and Development, AT&T
AT&T has been for a long time a very proactive proponent of SDN and NFV which are the key components of Domain 2.0. Our conversation with Tripps Tripathi, Director New Tech Prod Dev Eng, Services Design and Development, AT&T, gives us an update on AT&T Domain 2.0 and on the learnings from the initial stages of the transition to a virtualized network.
“One reason we got into NFV is that we realized that if we have to push services faster and sooner and have to reap the benefits of reusability and scalability, NFV is the way.” Tripps told me. “In our journey to NFV and SDN, we’ve learnt a lot. We’ve seen challenges. We’ve embraced those. What we are seeing is that some functions will be virtualized first. Some of them can be virtualized as of today, but there are certain functions that will be virtualized later. Functions like media functions, which require intense traffic processing, will probably be virtualized later when these get more mature.”
Read the full interview or watch the video to find out more about AT&T approach to network virtualization and how it expects to change the way it develops and launches new services.
This conversation will be included in the Senza Fili report “The emergence of the NFV ecosystem: Laying the foundation for a new way to run mobile networks” that will be published on October 6, 2014. If you would like to receive a complimentary copy of the report, please click here and you will be the first to receive the report when it is finalized.
