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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Jeff Baher, Senior Director of Service Provider Solutions at Dell EMC, talks to TIA NOW about the shift in the service provider space as compute in the core moves to the edge of the network.
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Tord Nilsson, Director of Global Marketing at Dell EMC, tells TIA NOW where we are on the journey towards network function virtualization, and what the effect is of merging EMC and Dell with respect to telecom.
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What is the best way to enable service providers to deploy virtual network functions at scale, and open opportunities for new revenues and a reduced time to market? An end-to-end NFV infrastructure solution is the answer, but it has to have the right ingredients. On this edition of TIA NOW’s NFV series, we explore a few ways to increase network optimization, reduce costs and deliver quick deployments, with Dave Ward, Chief Architect & CTO of Engineering at Cisco.
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How do orchestration and automation in the network provide coordination, scaling, installation and configuration capabilities for NFV? On this edition of TIA NOW’s NFV Series to answer these questions is Prodip Sen, CTO of Network Functions Virtualization at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise.
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NYU Wireless Founder Ted Rapport discusses the new possibilities with more spectrum following the FCC's Spectrum Frontiers ruling.
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Nick Maynard, Program Director at the National Science Foundation, discusses the importance of bringing universities and corporations together to drive innovation and speed to market for wireless apps and services, through research platforms in several cities across the U.S.
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Selina Lo, President and CEO of Ruckus Wireless, talks to TIA NOW about transforming the network of today to a more agile network of tomorrow.
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Sprint's VP of Technology Ron Marquardt talks to TIA NOW about the technology and human enablers of 5G.
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5G and Beyond: Bell Labs President on Research Labs and Network Operators Bringing R&D to City-Scale
Marcus Weldon, President of Bell Labs and Corporate CTO at Nokia, tells TIA NOW how the collaboration between industry research, academic research and government uncovers new apps, services and technologies that otherwise may not have been discovered.
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Jim Kurose, Assistant Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), talks to TIA NOW's Limor Schafman about this collaboration between the research community and the tech industry.
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Johnny Ghibril, VP for Software Solutions and Strategy at Nexius, tells TIA NOW how we are no longer dependent on specific network components. Ghibril adds that agility in the network introduced a different cultural model for our industry, as we innovate with new and redundant technologies.
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Kurt Raaflaub, Head of Strategic Solutions Marketing at ADTRAN, says service providers need to balance new revenue streams with the cost of maintaining the network. Raaflaub talks about how software defined networking will allow service providers to be more profitable through increased network and operating efficiencies, allowing the roll out of new services to become more streamlined.
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Jack Barrett, Senior Director of Americas Service Provider Field Marketing at Juniper Networks tells TIA NOW how DevOps provides agility and prioritizes people, skills and tools over traditional processes. Barrett also says that carriers need to take a nuanced approach to DevOps outside of the data center.
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The main ingredients for network virtualization that support the Internet of Things are skilled people, horizontal business models and a provider's willingness to listen to its users. In the Dell TIA NOW studio, we explore the synergy between NFV and IoT with Pierre Olivier-Mathys, Director of Global Telco Solutions at Red Hat and Brett Sappington, Senior Director of Research at Parks Associates.
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Rod Naphan, CTO of Fujitsu Network Communications tells TIA NOW that the biggest challenge for NFV is that the open source community is moving at a rapid pace, and industry trying to keep up with the production cycles.