If NFV is to be realized, it will require strategic partnerships and collaborations. What are the challenges that lie ahead? TIA NOW speaks with Philippe Morin, CEO of EXFO and Matt Beal, Director of Technology Strategy and Architecture at Vodafone, about the road ahead to making NFV a reality.
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Roy Chua, Partner and Founder of SDxCentral, spoke to TIA NOW’s Abe Nejad about the relationship between SDN, DevOps and network virtualization. Chua says infrastructure as code and SDN are vital for increased agility in a virtualized network.
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What are the challenges when merging the culture of open source with the exacting requirements of carrier-grade infrastructure? Heather Kirksey, Director of Linux’s Open Platform for NFV spoke with Abe Nejad about OPNFV’s integration of upstream open source projects such as OpenDaylight and KVM into an open, carrier-grade NFV reference platform.
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Are we closer to the starting line than the finish line of NFV? What should industry be focusing on at this stage of the NFV maturation cycle? These are questions that Dave Ward, CTO of Engineering and Chief Architect at Cisco spoke about from ONS 2017.
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Andre Fuetsch, President of AT&T Labs and CTO at AT&T and John Donovan, Chief Strategy Officer and Group President at AT&T Technology and Operations, talk with TIA NOW's Abe Nejad about the design of next-generation 5G wireless infrastructures, software-defined networking and automation, from the show floor at ONS 2017.
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TIA NOW hosts a panel at ONS 2017 on operationalizing NFV networks as well as new design architectures, tools and standards to secure the network. Joining the panel are Rajesh Gadiyar, Senior Director of Architecture & Systems Engineering of the Network Platforms Group at Intel and Brenda Boehm, Chief Strategy Officer and EVP of Technology & Products at TIA.
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As the telco industry is going through significant transformation in automation and network virtualization, service assurance and real-time analytics play an important role. Here at Mobile World Congress 2017, TIA NOW speaks with two important figures in the communications networking space: Andre Fuetsch, President of AT&T Labs and CTO of AT&T and Philippe Morin, COO at EXFO.
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As new business models around NFV increase, operators are no longer managing a handful of innovations - but now managing dozens of technologies that support NFV. In comes the independent systems integrator, to marry these innovations with operators to customize and create a robust NFV solution.
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Kevin Shatzkamer, VP of Service Provider Solutions and Strategy at Dell EMC speaks with TIA NOW’s Abe Nejad about his new role, which includes areas like strategy and architectural evolution at the intersection points of network technologies, virtual platforms and software programmability.
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NFV is evolving quickly, and Mobile World Congress is a great opportunity to follow the progression of the network virtualization space. On this panel are four leaders in the NFV space from GENBAND, HPE, Intel and Wind River.
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GENBAND CEO David Walsh discusses how RTC can give carriers an edge.
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Brian Bronson, CEO of Radisys, talks with TIA NOW's Abe Nejad at Mobile World Congress 2017 about real use cases for NFV that have been demonstrated, and his belief that operators are now less reticent to adopt virtualized network technologies.
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There are opposing opinions about the long term value of NFV by some in the wireless industry and TIA NOW will cover both sides of the debate for and against the role out of software-defined and virtualized networks. Joining us in the TIA NOW Studio is Norman Fekrat, Chief Strategy and Revenue Officer at Lemko, a software company enabling next-generation mobility.
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As the telco industry is helping to build carrier-grade, integrated and open source reference platforms for the NFV community, it doesn’t come without its challenges. Ildiko Vancsa, Ecosystem Technical Lead at OpenStack talks with TIA NOW about the next steps to create an ecosystem of NFV platforms, applications, management and orchestration systems.
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RIFT.io's VP of Marketing tells TIA NOW about the two major issues that both vendors and operators need to solve together in order to make NFV the de facto networking architecture.
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To give us an overview of the current and impending trends in the 2016-2020 edition of the MR&F are John Jackson, Program Vice President for Mobility Research at IDC and John Jacobs, VP of Market Intelligence and Strategy for TIA.