Posted By Steve Gleave on November 15, 2018
As the cloudification of communications networks gathers pace, architectures are becoming more varied from having to incorporate physical and virtual ...
Posted By Simon Dredge on November 13, 2018
NFV is now officially six years old. Despite the many technological breakthroughs in its relatively short life, the sense of frustration in the ...
Posted By Steve Gleave on November 07, 2018
The cloud native bandwagon is taking on travellers as more communication service providers (CSPs) acknowledge that software-based network functions ...
Posted By Steve Gleave on November 02, 2018
As more communication service providers (CSPs) gain experience with network virtualization, they recognize that virtual network functions (VNFs) need ...
Posted By Simon Dredge on October 29, 2018
In the realm of protocol suites, TCP/IP is the proverbial cockroach. I mean that in a nice way, of course. Well, as nice as you can be comparing ...
Posted By Steve Gleave on October 23, 2018
Automation was a hot topic at the SDN NFV World Congress in The Hague last week. The emphasis on automation shows how the communications industry has ...
Posted By Iwan Price-Evans on August 21, 2018
Metaswitch has been busy lately working with industry efforts on operations automation and sharing our expertise in cloud native software design. ...
Posted By Simon Dredge on August 07, 2018
Containers are all the rage in network virtualization these days. They’re not new to virtualized IT and Web-scale networks; indeed, containers have ...
Posted By Simon Dredge on August 02, 2018
As 5G network architecture plans begin to take shape, they are looking distinctly cloud native. Some network operators are realizing that they will ...
Posted By Iwan Price-Evans on July 18, 2018
Onboarding Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) remains one of the biggest challenges to implementing network virtualization cost effectively and running ...
Posted By Iwan Price-Evans on July 10, 2018
Establishing our cloud native software credentials has been a common topic on this blog. But we also think that our engagements with many of the ...
Posted By Iwan Price-Evans on July 02, 2018
Five years ago, very few telecom suppliers recognized that network software running on dedicated hardware would need to be redesigned to run well in ...