Tom Nolle of CIMI Corp wrote another thoughtful piece on NFV this week Is NaaS a Good Conceptual Framework for SDN and NFV? He introduces a concept termed Network as a Service (NaaS). You can refer to the cloud voice platform as Voice NaaS (as a prospect once did).
The operational and support challenges of building and running a multi-vendor VoIP network were highlighted by Verizon’s Kyle Malady, SVP of global network operations at a recent conference (see Light Reading’s article Verizon Worried About SDN, NFV Impacts).
Light Reading’s Sarah Reedy posted a thoughtful article on NFV (5 Ways Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Lowers CapEx and OpEx) and its (an empty?) promise. We see NFV as necessary (we are using that in our cloud voice platform) to build the elastic, scalable infrastructure. But NFV technology by itself lacks an elastic business model...
This week I am headed to a Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) focused event called the Software Telco Congress. I’ll be speaking on Thursday about real-time communications and how the future network is based on virtualized and pure software environments. This is a great topic as it traces some of Alianza’s roots and also showcases where...
