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April 2015

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NFV vs. SDN

April 28, 2015


I have written in the past about NFV and SDN being complementary. Now that some time has gone on, I wanted to expand on that. It is definitely still true, but being at Mobile World Congress crystallized my thinking on this subject.

First NFV is about providing virtual network functions.


Country Music and Wi-Fi Offload

April 21, 2015


This past Sunday night I attended the 50th annual Academy of Country Music (ACM) awards, hosted at the AT&T Stadium outside of Dallas, Texas.  If nothing else, this certainly represented the most cowboy boots in one place I’ve ever seen.

So why am I writing about this?  Well, I have AT&T service and as I approached the stadium I got a text message that said “AT&T Wi-Fi is active near your location.


The NFV End Game Part 2

April 7, 2015

If it’s true that NFV will end the “end-to-end solutions coming from a single vendor” and usher in the “best of breed” approach, then it means significant changes for this industry.  Some large players that have end-to-end solutions will need to change if they want to survive.  This is easier said than done.

First of all, assume some of what the large players have is “best of breed”. 

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