Nokia-led 5G-MoNArch focused on 5G for vertical markets including automotive, healthcare and media
Network slicing, seen as a key 5G enabler, partitions a single physical layer into multiple virtual networks. With this technology, operators can essentially provide optimal support for any type of application on...
The booming NFV and SDN market
The network functions virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN) market is expected to be worth approximately $54.41 billion by 2022 with a compound annual growth rate of 71.4%, according to a new report by MarketsandMarkets. Accompanying the report is...
Dell EMC and BT partner on PoC to use disaggregated switches to manage network traffic
Dell EMC and BT announced they are collaborating on a trial centered on how disaggregated switches can create flexible, open networks. The companies are tag teaming a proof-of-concept at BT...
Verizon teams up with Amazon to deliver virtual services at global scale
Verizon announced it has made its Virtual Network Services available on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. AWS cloud provides building blocks that can be assembled quickly to support workloads. Businesses leverage AWS...
InterDigital Flips platform uses NFV and SDN 'fabric'
InterDigital, a mobile technology research and development company, announced its mobile edge computing (MEC) 5G network architecture trial in Bristol, U.K., was a success.
Bistol Is Open, a collaborate smart city project run by the University of Bristol...
HPE to resell Big Switch’s Big Cloud Fabric and Big Monitoring Fabric
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) recently announced it will resell Big Switch Network's Big Cloud Fabric  (BCF) and Big Monitoring Fabric (Big Mon) with its Altoline Switch Products as part of a recent partnership...
Business enterprises across the globe today are looking to embrace digital transformation to help them stay ahead of the curve. Whether you are a startup or a medium sized enterprise or a Fortune 500 company, consumers today seek faster services with growing demands. To...
Dell report highlights how SDN is redefining human and machine relationship
According to a recent Dell Technologies report, software-defined networking (SDN) is poised to play a pivotal role in future partnerships between humans and machines.
Dell collaborated with the Institute for the Future (IFTF) to investigate...
The growing SD-WAN market
Service providers are launching software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solutions at an increasing pace. Market intelligence provider IDC projects the SD-WAN market will expand from $225 million in 2015 to $1.19 billion by end of 2017. Given the number of SD-WAN services available...
How SDN is benefiting telecom operators
Software-defined networking (SDN) is a budding technology shaping the telecom industry. The architecture enables network behavior to be centrally controlled through software applications using APIs. Accompanying this capability are a host of benefits. Here is a rundown of the...
The challenge of NFV and SDN security vulnerabilities
Telecommunication operators are gung-ho about network functions virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN). The former involves decoupling software from hardware, whereas the latter involves a central control plane that manages network behavior. Although both technologies provide several...
How to ensure a successful SDN deployment
Software-defined networking (SDN) is a way to centrally control physical and virtual network devices, including routes, switches and gateways, in a datacenter. The aim of the idea is to provide networks with greater agility, speed and security....
AT&T Labs exec says gaining full software control of the network in its 'early stages'
Dave Walter, AT&T Labs AVP of Radio Technology and Strategy, recently fielded questions regarding not only the operator's ongoing trials of pre-standard fixed wireless access 5G technologies, but also how...
It’s no secret network functions virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN) are shaping the telecom industry. Spearheading the shift to a virtualized network is The Linux Foundation, which hosts numerous projects aimed at building a strong open ecosystem for telecom operators.
History of The Linux Foundation
The...
The purpose of CORD
Network providers must address numerous hurdles with the demand for greater bandwidth and additional services. In an effort to tackle these challenges, operators hope to benefit from the economies of commodity infrastructure and the agility of scalable services. For these reasons,...
5G network slicing demo conducted with China Mobile highlights health care use cases
The concept of network slicing as applied to 5G involves the use software-defined network and network functions virtualization to dynamically create bespoke data pipes capable of meeting the specific service requirements of...
ZTE Â sees growing opportunities in the virtualization space in emerging markets
SHANGHAI- Chinese vendor ZTE expects to end 2017 with approximately 300 commercial/POC virtualized networks globally, the company’s Principal Scientists of NFV/SDN solutions, told reporters during a press conference at Mobile World Congress Shanghai.
The executives...
With the rapid adoption of new technologies from cloud computing and analytics to the explosion of third-party applications, network managers are constantly playing catch up to meet demands. They need the flexibility and agility to meet the challenge of giving employees the proper tools...
Software-defined networking (SDN) is making big waves in the telecom networking spaces. Like any budding technology, SDN will take time to develop. Nevertheless, SDN applications are being deployed by major service providers including Amazon, Cisco, Facebook, Microsoft and NTT, to name just a few.
What...
SDN explained
Data centers, carriers and enterprise centers are becoming increasingly complex in a world that demands greater agility. Existing networks are not designed to be dynamic, making it difficult for them to respond to change. In an effort to address shifts in traffic flows...
The need for NFV
Network functions virtualization (NFV) is widely described as the biggest game changer in the telecom industry. Service providers everywhere are embracing NFV to enable speed and agility, creating the ability to pump out services at an unprecedented rate.
Today’s application climate consists...
Network functions virtualization (NFV) is making big waves in the telecom industry, but the shift lacks proper oversight. Consequently, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) defined management and orchestration (MANO) as the architectural framework for overseeing the surge of network functions flooding virtual devices.
At...
Developed with Intel Labs, Sprint says C3PO combines open source software with off-the-shelf hardware to drive network efficiencies
The ever-increasing complexity of evolving telecommunications networks is forcing operators to quickly virtualize and automate network management and operational processes to keep up with the flexibility and...
Lab aimed at speeding development, implementation of SDN/NFV
Broadband Forum and the China-based SDN/NFV Industry Alliance plan to set up a joint lab in China for testing aimed at accelerating the development and implementation of software-defined networking and network function virtualization.
The two organizations will work together...
