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The communications industry is beginning to talk about how to implement network function virtualisation (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN), we noted at the SDN & OpenFlow World Congress 2014. This

Communications service providers (CSPs) for the most part still enjoy a healthy bottom line. It is mostly their future that people question, always worried about some nimble, innovative company toppling

The value of SDN/NFV lies in standardising and making network infrastructure programmable, while enabling value-added services to be introduced quickly and efficiently, writes Ari Banerjee, principal analyst for service provider

“Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) will represent a 5 to 10-year evolution cycle for communication service providers (CSPs) and there is a broad consensus that NFV is needed and is going

Research says practically all CSPs plan to virtualise but they are paralysed by the usual fears of pitching into the unknown. It’s a question of putting your best foot forward and

Phil Harris is vice president and chief technology officer in the Chief Technology and Architecture Office (CTAO) at Cisco Systems. As communications service providers(CSPs) continue to prepare for network functions virtualisation