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The Song of the Sirens: Five ways to spot hidden NFV vendor lock-in
One of the big attractions of NFV is that it gives operators a chance to break free of single vendor contracts and establish greater control over the future development of their networks. Genuinely ‘open NFV’ gives operators the ability to change tack according to technical and commercial developments. It enables them to shop around for best of breed solutions and blend a mixture of, say, migration-oriented hybrid solutions with white or grey-box CPEs and connect them all to their choice of orchestrator. It also dramatically improves their negotiating power. Yet, despite appearances, few NFV vendors practice ‘genuinely open NFV’ and instead disguise how they intend to close and lock the front door once their customer has stepped inside. There are five common traps that vendors set for operators as they entice them toward ‘open NFV’ contracts: #1 Charging for third-party connections One o
Posted in Virtualization On Thursday, 27 April 2017
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Diverse Reality - A View from the MWC 2017 Walkway
Marc Bouteyre
Industry Trends
MWC is the biggest Telecoms event in the world and most of us were expecting the big theme this year to be 5G. Whilst 5G was present on many stands, it was upstaged by both a faster type of 4G and a phone from the past. The other takeaway from Barcel
US Telcos Move Ahead on NFV as Europe Watches: 2017 Predictions
Marc Bouteyre
Virtualization
While huge progress has been made this year toward the development of virtualized services, a variety of challenges remain before widespread service roll-out can commence. 2017 will be the year that the industry takes positive steps to overcome these
ROI for white-box CPEs: a question of segmentation
Antoine Lecomte
Virtualization
Operators commonly expect that moving to SDN and NFV will enable cost reductions, through efficiency gains in network management and device consolidation. As they get closer to deployment, however, commercial reality is telling a different story, dep
Pushing through Glass Ceilings at the SDN World Congress 2016
Marc Bouteyre
Virtualization
Live from the SDN World Congress Show in The Hague, Pravin Mirchandani, CMO, EKINOPS, reflects on the industry challenges steering the dialogue at this year’s conference. In Gartner’s hype cycle, there is an inevitable time of disillusionment that fo
Fifty Shades of NFV?
Marc Bouteyre
Virtualization
In the racy world of CPE architecture, what virtualization-hungry service providers say they want isn’t always what they need, says Pravin Mirchandani, CMO, EKINOPS. Alright, perhaps ‘racy’ is going a bit far, but as the virtualization industry moves
Can Smart, Hybrid-Access Technology be the panacea for delivering universal high-speed broadband services?
Thierry Masson
Industry Trends
OneAccess product marketing manager, Thierry Masson believes that the success of the European Broadband Access via integrated Terrestrial & Satellite Systems (BATS) project means that operators now have an alternative to fiber as a means of meeti
Thick & Thin: A Taxonomy of CPEs
Marc Bouteyre
Virtualization
In presentations at virtualization conferences, and in our discussions with operators and service providers, there remains a lot of confusion surrounding the terms ‘thick’ and ‘thin’ as they relate to customer premises equipment (CPE). This is becaus
       
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