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OSS/BSS: The Sticking Point for Success in SDN/NFV
In a recent article on SDxCentral.com they talked about OSS/BSS being the main challenge to successfully implementing NFV and SDN solutions in your network. This is so true, and one of the primary drivers of what we at Itential are trying to achieve with our Application Platform. Traditional OSS is built around the idea of a
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The Current State of NFV: Virtual Network Functions
This may be one of the shorter blogs in this series, as it is very straightforward. In this one I want to focus on Virtual Network Functions, where they are today and where they are headed. In recent years, as cloud environments have become more and more common, vendors have begun creating virtualized versions of
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Disaggregation and the Operational Nightmare It Presents
One of the big trends discussed at the OpenStack Summit in Austin a few weeks ago was the idea of disaggregation. While traditional thinking in the network world has been to aggregate as much as possible; in the NFV world the dominant model is quite the opposite. First you have OpenStack itself, which is a conglomeration
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Orchestration, Orchestration Everywhere…What Are We To Do?
One of the most overused phrases in the industry is orchestration. This is the case now, it was the case in the past, and it probably will continue to be in the future. It seems to be everyone’s answer to everything. Every vendor that has an “orchestrator” will promise you they can do anything you want,
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So I am Building a Private Cloud, Now What?
The question of whether you should be in the cloud or not, in some capacity, should be a forgone conclusion at this point. There is value to be had in the cloud for all businesses, whether big or small. Most businesses are probably already using the cloud in some manner, even if it is just
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SDN Maturity Model
One of our key goals at Itential is to promote SDN and help companies grow in maturity in this fast emerging technology. In support of this we have defined version 1 of the SDN Maturity Model, as shown below: There are two primary components to the model: the maturity curve and what it means to
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Here Comes Virtual CPE!
An exciting application of SDN and NFV technologies is emerging into the mainstream in the last couple of months, and boy is it a popular topic in blog posts. This topic of growing interest is virtual customer premise equipment (vCPE). If you are still a little in the dark with regard to what exactly vCPE is
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The SDN/NFV App Store
We are in the beginnings of a wave of software controlled network engineering and network virtualization concepts being introduced to the network. We are also beginning to see the benefits manifested through the implementation of Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). As these technologies continue implementation providers will reap tremendous gains in elasticity, agility,
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The “Non-Order” Order
Customers spend most of their day with network access through computers, smart phones, tablets, and, in the not so distant future, even the devices around them in the home…like light bulbs, refrigerators, and the like. With everything being self-serve these days it’s beginning to be expected that service providers get with the times and
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