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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Hassan Ahmed, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Affirmed Networks, talks to TIA NOW about the promises of NFV including a 70% reduced total cost of ownership. Ahmed says, "You are wasting money if you are not doing it [NFV]."
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At the TIA 2015 Network of the Future Conference, Sandro Tavares, Head of Marketing, Mobile Core at Nokia Networks, tells TIA NOW why network agility - to scale and innovate - is the primary driver for Cloud technologies.
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Guido Appenzeller, Chief Technology Strategy Officer of the Networking & Security Business Unit at Vmware, tells TIA NOW why the mechanics of SDN is not the hot topic anymore. Now, the industry wants to know the true impact of virtualized networks on the future of existing and emerging markets. Appenzeller is one of the pioneers of SDN technology protocols and architectures, spanning back to his days as a professor at Stanford University working on the OpenFlow development project.
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Andre Fuetsch, Senior Vice President of Architecture and Design at AT&T, tells TIA NOW how AT&T is reacting to the 100 petabytes of data surging across its network pipes. SDN and NFV technologies are drastically changing the way operators approach the data deluge and Fuetsch sees the opportunities in these new technologies.
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As mobile data services are expected to grow sevenfold in the next three years, MNOs are eager to figure out how to monetize those services with ingenuity and reliability. At TIA 2015, Amit Tiwari, Vice President of Strategic Alliances and Systems Engineering at Affirmed Networks, spoke with TIA NOW about the services that create opportunity, supported by NFV technologies.
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At TIA 2015, Sanjay Bhatia, Vice President of Solutions Marketing and Strategy at GENBAND sat with TIA NOW to talk about the business case behind NFV. GENBAND focuses on real-time communications (RTC) technologies that rely on software-centric networks.
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Paul Obsitnik, Vice President of Service Provider Marketing at Juniper Networks, tells TIA NOW about the drivers for NFV for operators and enterprises. Obsitnik talks about how NFV is maturing as new approaches like DevOps becomes prevalent by using the right tool for the right solution.
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Andre Fuetsch, Senior Vice President of Architecture and Design at AT&T, talks about AT&T's SDN and NFV play, including their plan to virtualize and software-control 75% of their network by 2020.
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Andre Fuetsch, Senior Vice President of Architecture and Design at AT&T joins us at the TIA 2015 Conference to talk about AT&T's SDN and NFV play.
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Virtual test beds that measure the degrees of automation for NFV orchestrated networks are blanketing the industry. TIA NOW talked with one of the pioneers of virtual networking, Martin Casado, inventor of OpenFlow, an enabler of software defined networking, and also the SVP and GM of the Networking and Security Business Unit at VMWare.
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Manish Singh, VP of Product Management for SDN/NFV at Tech Mahindra, tells TIA NOW how network virtualization has come a long way in a very short time.
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Franklin Flint, Global Telecom Strategist & Marketing Director for Dell OEM Solutions, wraps up MWC 2015 in the Dell booth. He talks about the importance of how an open source and partner ecosystem facilitates technologies like network functions virtualization.
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TIA NOW covered Mobile World Congress once again with industry panels, executive interviews and a whole lot of member interaction. Join TIA NOW as we give you a quick look at our coverage at MWC 2015.
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The NFV value chain is enabling the evolution of a virtualized and agile network architecture. In the Dell TIA NOW studio at MWC 2015 are three players in NFV- Intel, Alcatel-Lucent and Mobile Experts - to tell us about NFV solutions for the telecom ecosystem.
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An agile communications network can’t operate without an open-source cloud computing software platform. Darrell Jordan-Smith, Head of the Communications and Media Vertical at Red Hat, Franklin Flint, Global Telecommunications Strategist & Marketing Director at Dell OEM Solutions and John Healy, General Manager of the SDN Division at Intel tell us more about their open source cloud solutions for the telecommunications vertical.