VNF

Enterprises are busy implementing SD-WAN to provide cost-effective, secure, and application-aware connectivity to multiple cloud platforms for branches and remote offices. The results are clear: a distributed workforce obtains superior Quality of Experience (QoE) for multi-cloud and SaaS application…

Vodafone Idea Limited, the largest telecom service provider in India, is deploying a state-of-the-art, automated multicloud network across the country to enable an unmatched experience for its retail and enterprise customers. Vodafone Idea Limited’s automated cloud scale architecture is synchronized…

Organizations are implementing SD-WAN to bring secure, cost-effective, and efficient connectivity to distributed branches, retail outlets, and an increasingly distributed workforce. Top of mind for IT when expanding remote connectivity is ensuring the security and integrity of remote network applian…

We at Cisco have been delivering network orchestration and automation products for a number of years now. Our customers have deployed Cisco Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) with NFV Orchestration (NFVO) and Elastic Services Controller (ESC) to orchestrate physical and virtual network in productio…

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…

As more and more service providers and enterprises invest in Network Function Virtualization (NFV), the fast-evolving and maturing NFV technology poses special challenges for those who are looking to not only perform a proof-of-concept, but also operationalize their NFV initiative, and ultimately of…

Virtual Network Function (VNF) Test and Validation initiatives are being touted by many vendors at the moment. Service providers have been challenged with the interoperability, scale and performance of the early generation VNFs.   There should be no question on whether software VNFs should be “…

Cisco launched Secure Agile Exchange (SAE) last week in Berlin, Germany, as part of Cisco Live Europe.  It was part of our  DNA Virtualization announcement  – so subtle you might have even missed it.  We’ve been working on Secure Agile Exchange (SAE) for the last 3 years.  We have a few custom…

  Guest Blog Submitted by Filippo Galimberti, Sr. Marketing Manager SP   The industry has been discussing about Virtualization for a quite a while. The adoption is not picking-up as expected. Why? One of the main reasons is too much efforts are still spent on designing and testing a NFV I…