As mobile operators begin to roll out NFV, SDN and cloud platforms, there is a growing need for centralized orchestration in order to help automate information flow among the platforms and for on-boarding of services. This is also known as management and orchestration (MANO). This...
China Unicom said it plans to work with the ONOS project to deploy SDN
The Open Network Lab’s Open Network Operating System project continues to attract members, with China Unicom recently announcing plans to cooperate with the ONOS project to promote software-defined networking industry development...
Verizon SDN plans tap Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Ericsson, Juniper, Nokia
Verizon Communications publicly announced its software-defined networking plans, stating partnerships with the likes of Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Ericsson, Juniper Networks and Nokia Networks to implement an SDN platform.
Verizon said the move will allow the telecom giant to...
Infonetics report found 72% of NA-based enterprises plan LAN SDN networks
A vast majority of North America-based enterprises plan to deploy live campus local area network software-defined networking products by the end of 2017, according to a new report from Infonetics Research.
The report tapped into...
Media Vision 2020 from Ericsson predicts on-demand will overtake live TV
Media and networking powerhouse Ericsson is launching a new cloud-based digital video recording platform to replace legacy television services.
The move into the on-demand media content space is predicated on Ericsson’s Media Vision 2020 research,...
Telecom NFV growth spurred by operational efficiencies, SDN by enterprise
A new report from Mind Commerce finds that telecom network revenue tied to network functions virtualization could reach $8.7 billion by the end of 2020, as operators continue to push toward virtualized deployments using NFV....
ONOS project's Blackbird SDN platform touts, ‘performance, scale, high availability’
The Open Network Lab’s Open Network Operating System project unveiled its Blackbird platform, the second release from the ONOS community targeting the software-defined networking market.
The Blackbird release is focused on “performance, scale and high availability,”...
Service providers, enterprises targets of IBM’s SDN, virtualization, automation centers
IBM is set to open a pair of “network innovation centers” designed to allow clients to take software-defined networking, virtualization and analytics-driven automation technologies and services for a spin.
The centers will be located in Dallas and...
Huawei said it has partnered with the Open Networking Foundation and Open Network Lab through its Open Network Operating System platform to build an open ecosystem designed to support commercial carrier deployments of software-defined networking.
The SDN platform will support the ONOS platform, the company...
NFV, SDN drive rapid innovation
BARCELONA, Spain – The notion of network function virtualization has to some extent confounded mobile network operators dependent on complex – and expensive – legacy architectures.
But as consumer demand facilitated by fiber and gigabit connections increases, network operators are pushed...
Infonetics Research report found robust SDN plans across North America
The market for software-defined networking solutions is expected to blossom over the next several years, with robust SDN opportunities for both incumbent and new entrants, according to a new report from Infonetics Research.
The report, “Data...
NFV has become a hot topic in the wireless telecom space, and this webinar will provide an update on how the NFV ecosystem is developing; how the NFV standards process is progressing with a focus on standards bodies; and look ahead to 2015 NFV deployment...
NFV has become a hot topic in the wireless telecom space, and this report provides an update on how the NFV ecosystem is developing; how the NFV standards process is progressing with a focus on standards bodies; and look ahead to 2015 NFV deployment trends.
What...
SK Telecom, Cisco, Spirent join open-source SDN, NFV organizations
The move toward a unified approach to telecom network virtualization using software-defined networking and network function virtualization continues to draw interested companies, as a pair of organizations announced expansion of their member lists.
The Open Network Lab...
Nokia plans unveiling for Mobile World Congress in March
Nokia Networks have partnered to deploy what the companies are billing as the first-ever intelligent self-organizing network to mobile backhaul.
The two companies will demonstrate the technology at Mobile World Congress, set for March 2-5 in Barcelona, Spain.
SON...
T-Mobile picks Accedian Networks’ V-NID platform
Accedian Networks, which specializes in performance assurance for mobile networks, has deployed a network performance monitoring system for carrier T-Mobile Poland.
Accedian deployed its V-NID Performance Platform, which will allow T-Mobile Poland to monitor data traffic as it moves from the...
The OpenDaylight Project announced the availability of 14 internships as part of its 2015 Internship Program. The offer is said to provide “real-world development experience” targeting the software-defined networking and network function virtualization fields, which OpenDaylight noted had more than 100 job openings at companies...
As mobile networks evolve from present architectures and business models to NFV/virtualized, software-based architectures and customer-centric business models, network planners and architects have come to recognize Analytics as a foundational cornerstone that is central to the business transformation that is underway. In Parallel the...
The Linux Foundation’s recently launched Open Platform for NFV Project expanded its membership role as well as announced a director to head up the OPNFV plans to provide a “carrier-grade, integrated, open source reference platform intended to accelerate the introduction of new products and...
On this week's NFV/SDN Reality Check, RCR Wireless News Editor-In-Chief Dan Meyer provides updates on the latest in NFV- and SDN-related telecom news, and speaks with Tom Nadeau, distinguished engineer at Brocade, about the current evolution of network virtualization.
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute recently...
A new report from Argus Insights shows that software-defined networking maintained a healthy mindshare lead over network function virtualization during the past two months, citing data collected from blogs, message boards, Facebook and Twitter.
The firm noted that “relative mindshare reflects the expected revenue growth over...
Huawei NFV lab will focus on multivendor interoperability
Huawei recently opened a new lab in Xi’an, China, focused on developing multivendor integration verification capabilities for network function virtualization. The lab is said to be an expansion of Huawei’s move to work with customers, partners and...
SDN and NFV service-provider solutions
Having announced a joint venture with Avion Systems, India-based digital transformation firm Tech Mahindra is looking to help telecom service providers move onto telco cloud-computing platforms and take advantage of network function virtualization and software-defined network solutions.
Tech Mahindra is a...
SDN platform now comes with one year of free management
Looking to boost industry uptake of its recently launched Vyatta Controller, Brocade said it is now offering a free one-year license for the downloadable software.
The company said the free management license covers up to five physical...
