Deterministic, Time-Sensitive Networking for IoT
Having read my post on the Path Computation Element, “Pixie Dust and Unicorn Stuff,” and finding only one small error [see the footnotes for ...
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Metaswitch Gives vCPE its Voice
Virtual customer premises equipment (vCPE) is one of the most compelling use cases for network functions virtualization (NFV), and it’s easy to see ...
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Metaswitch Joins NEC Netcracker SDN Partner Space Ecosystem
Wait, there’s another NFV ecosystem? Yes, of course, ecosystems and partnerships are critical for accelerating the growth of network functions ...
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NFV is No Longer a Science Experiment
The pace of NFV development has picked up dramatically over the last year. Virtualization seemed like a science experiment for most network operators ...
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Collaboration Is Key to Virtualization
Since the network functions virtualization (NFV) ecosystem is so broad and diverse, partnerships and collaboration among vendors have been crucial to ...
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Metaswitch, GigaSpaces Demo Orchestrated VoLTE
Metaswitch and GigaSpaces showed a fully orchestrated VoLTE solution on the VMware stand at Mobile World Congress last month that exemplified what ...
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The missing link: VNF to SDN
NFV and SDN both play key roles in the ongoing evolution of telco networks to support flexible, programmable and composable services on a generic ...
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FD.io Takes Over VPP and Unites with DPDK to Accelerate NFV Data Planes to Outright Nutty Speeds
On the realization that I was not about to quit these blog posts any time soon, my inbound marketing manager felt obliged to impart some worldly ...
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Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! BGP, MPLS, Segment Routing and PCE!
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Accelerating the NFV Data Plane: SR-IOV and DPDK… in my own words
It is true -- much has been said about both SR-IOV and DPDK in the past, even right here on our very own blog. I see this as a challenge: An ...
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The Myth of the Carrier-Grade Cloud
Many of the network operators that we are talking to about virtualized network functions (VNFs) are investing heavily in building specially ...
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The Missing Link: Service Function Chaining and Its Relationship to NFV
I remember that ‘aha’ moment when I first heard about Service Function Chaining (SFC). It was that realization that, along with NFV, I was witnessing ...
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