Why collaboration is vital in accelerating deployments of NFV and SDN – Part 2

Federico Descalzo, vice president and chief marketing
technology officer,Italtel

With so much progress, the future of NFV certainly seems to be headed towards widespread adoption but there is a crucial factor missing from this picture: standardisation. While attempts are being made – for example, by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) – achieving this could take years.

Consequently, in order to accelerate deployment, the onus is on players in the industry to share their approaches and collaborate, says Federico Descalzo of Italtel

Enter the Intel® Network Builders Program

This is exactly why we have joined more than 150 other companies in the Intel Network Builders program.  Designed to accelerate innovation in NFV and SDN solutions, Intel Network Builders is an ecosystem of leading solutions providers which provides access to a comprehensive reference architecture library of proven solutions ready for implementation in production environments. It is designed to build and simplify SDN infrastructure, enhance security and improve efficiency in networking, computing and storage.

Our entry into the program, combined with the refactoring of our network products, will improve our proprietary products portfolio and enhance proposed network solutions. The collaboration also means we have access to the best available technologies.

From an industry perspective, the program is a great opportunity to accelerate the adoption and deployment of NFV and SDN solutions through key elements: advancing open-source community work, open reference designs to expand product development, enabling an open NFV and SDN ecosystem and Proof of Concept and trials collaboration. Through these initiatives, network transformation can be enabled and the delivery and deployment of flexible and low-TCO products to telecom, cloud, and enterprise customers can be facilitated.

Realising NFV’s future

The early signs of standardisation, then, can be seen in the NFV and SDN worlds albeit in its early guise of collaboration. For the technologies to become universally adopted and for networks to keep pace with today’s bandwidth-hungry applications and proliferation of devices, both operators and manufacturers require access to a flourishing ecosystem of NFV and SDN architecture from which to develop reference models. With this, and further cooperation to generate agreed standards, there is no reason why NFV and its benefits cannot become widespread in networks and, in turn, revolutionise operators’ businesses.

The author is  Federico Descalzo, vice president and chief marketing technology officer at Italtel

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