NFV
Handy Tips from your SP Peers – Top 10 SDN/NFV Transformation Challenges
As part of our SDN and NFV study, we asked service providers what they considered to be their biggest challenges in their transformation. We have synthesized their responses and will share some of the top ones with you here. We assumed that the top challenges your peers faced would be technology foc…
Network Security in the Age of Hyperconnectivity: Pervasive, Proactive, and Persistent Protection is Essential to Thwart …
Securing today’s digital content has become more challenging, as there are more endpoints and wide area networks (WAN) to protect than ever before. There will be 27.1 billion networked devices/connections by 2021, up from 17.1 billion in 2016 globally (according to the latest Cisco Visual Networking…
Automation and Big Networks: The More, The Better
Recently I had the good fortune to be invited to address a Light Reading BCE audience in Austin, where the theme was the future of big networks. There was plenty of discussion, as you might imagine, about software defined networks/SDNs, network function virtualization (NFV) and artificial intelligen…
Avi Networks and Cisco Join Forces by Entering Into a Strategic Reseller Agreement
Avi Networks & Cisco join forces by entering into a strategic reseller agreement We have been working very closely with Avi Networks for more than a year now to help our joint customers achieve their goals. This partnership spans engineering, product management, and sales. Because of the succe…
Cisco Rated #1 for both SDN and NFV Professional Services and Support in IHS Survey!
A while back, I blogged on a survey that market research firm Ovum ran to help us with market research in NFV and SDN professional services. While it wasn’t our principal objective in this survey to measure competitive position, we did receive some very interesting competitive perceptions fro…
Enterprise NFV Design and Use Cases – Part 2
Design Considerations for Branch Virtualization with NFV In the 1st blog on Enterprise NFV Design we discussed the concept of network function virtualization and its benefits, what are the foundation blocks when planning for branch virtualization with NFV? Let’s look closely into each foundation blo…
Clearing the Fog Around Automation
Our last blogs highlighted the success factors for SDN & NFV transformation and the three pathways to Service Provider (SP) transformation. Many of you have responded to the results of the study. While the research was a qualitative look at issues facing SPs as they adopt NFV and SDN, we will fo…
Let Your Business Customers Be Your Guide For NFV / SDN Transformation
OK, if you’re not thinking that I have lost my mind you are perhaps thinking, “How can my customers guide me with SDN and NFV?”. If you look at it from the technology viewpoint, you are correct! Your customers don’t specifically care about SDN and NFV nor any other technological mumbo jumbo and mo…
Orchestrated Assurance: What is it and why do I need it?
Service Providers aim to deliver network services faster with assured customer quality. But, as networks are becoming increasingly software-defined and programmable, the rate at which they change is also rising, driven by network-on-demand offerings and self-service portals. In this dynamic environ…