Complicated carrier networks need to be eased toward SDN/NFV
Very few SDN/NFV implementations are expected to be "greenfield" so the key will be to make the new work with existing networks. At SDN & Openflow World Congress 2013, in Bad Homburg, Germany,...
View ArticleNetwork Operators suggest willingness to change
Project Clearwater is an Open Source initiative designed from the ground up to run in a cloud environment. Martin Taylor, CTO at Metaswitch, explains how the project has garnered interest from Network...
View ArticleHow will telcos buy and build NFV infrastructure?
Martin Taylor, CTO, Metaswitch NFV is a journey that could take as long as ten years, but in these first two years the main players in the supply chain have already likely emerged. But the big...
View ArticleMetaswitch looks to offload router functions
Andy Randall, GM Networking Business Unit, Metaswitch In the long term, the intelligence of the network will move out of dedicated devices and into software, and this also applies to routers....
View ArticleSDN intelligent aggregation for carrier ethernet services
James Buchanan, SVP PLM, ADVA Optical Networking ADVA is demonstrating Intelligent aggregation, using its carrier ethernet switch paired with Metaswitch's control protocols, using SDN. It allows...
View ArticleThe most Excited Telecoms People have been in 15 Years
Sue Rudd, Director of Wireless Operator Strategies, Strategy Analytics Sue Rudd shares some SDN/NFV insights with Martyn Warwick. She says the lead players - AT&T and Deutsche Telekom - wanted to...
View ArticleTelecom and Open Source: hopefully meeting in the middle
Chris Wright, Technical Director of SDN & NFV, Red Hat If you wanted yet another way to describe what's happening to telecoms with the development of NFV/SDN, you could do worse than think of it...
View ArticleWhere does the NFV ISG go from here?
Steven Wright, Chairman, ETSI NFV ISG Steven recently took the reins at the ETSI NFV ISG which, originally envisaged as a 'short lifetime' organisation, has now requested a two year extension "to...
View ArticleTwo Pint Problem Number Nine: the '2 Pint' Team takes its Last Bow as Open...
Over the year or so that we've been downing these pints of beer in homage to the great detective Sherlock Holmes and his now forbidden tobacco pipe, the SDN/NFV movement that we've been discussing has...
View ArticleMetaswitch supports open source NFV
Martin Taylor, CTO, Metaswitch Metaswitch sees organisations such as the OPNFV as necessary additions to the NFV work being carried out under the auspices of ETSI, as vendors and operators participate...
View ArticleTelekom Austria builds completely virtualised VoLTE network in Serbia
Guenther Ottendorfer, CTO, Telekom Austria Group AND Martin Taylor, CTO, Metaswitch Austria Group had been doing NFV trials, Gunther tells Martyn Warwick, explaining that they did one last year in...
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Metaswitch adds the Media Resource Function to its virtual IMS
Un-virtual switch via Flickr © Byteboy (CC BY-SA 2.0) Metaswitch Networks and Radisys have got together to offer Radisys’ virtualized Media Resource Function (vMRF) as a partner to Metaswitch’s...
View ArticleNFV vision now being stood up and realised
Martin Taylor, CTO, Metaswitch Martin Taylor is not surprised that NFV is taking-off much more rapidly than many in the industry expected. That's because network operators, in the driving seat and...
View ArticleVirtualisation's big bonus: enables telcos to go beyond their regions
Micaela Giuhat, VP Product Marketing, SBC, Metaswitch Networks Micaela Guihat talks about the challenges faced by network operators and carriers as they virtualise their infrastructure and how to...
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Overcoming data centre scalability problems for NFV
via Flickr © dvanzuijlekom (CC BY-SA 2.0) Project Calico v1.0 out, designed to tackle scalability problems for NFV and data centersCalico 1.0 proven on an OpenStack cluster of 10,000 virtual machines...
View ArticleExclusive! Your first chance to meet Metaswitch's new CEO, Martin Lund
Martin Lund, CEO, Metaswitch Metaswitch, already a growing force in NFV and the provision of network software, is poised to capitalise on that position and is determined to be pre-eminent on the...
View ArticleA new category of vendor: the Network Software Provider
Ken Cavanaugh, Director of Business Development, Metaswitch Metaswitch is an NSP - a network software provider. Its products power the transition of communication networks into the cloud-based,...
View ArticleAdvertorial: HPE OpenNFV Partner Ecosystem
http://www.hpe.com/csp/nfv - Why is openness so crucial for the deployment and evolution of NFV in CSP networks? What benefits do VNFs deliver to the CSP? Why do ISVs and NEPs partner with HPE?...
View ArticleThe challenge of adopting SDN in the enterprise
Marc Cohn, SVP Marketing, ClearPath Networks, and Martin Taylor, CTO, Metaswitch So far SDN’s ability to penetrate the enterprise network appears to have been relatively limited. But why? What are the...
View ArticleScaling out a unified communications business
Damien Watine, Founder & CEO, Serveurcom Serveurcom is a French IP Centrex and Unified Communications service provider targetting enterprise customers. Damien explains to Martyn Warwick why the...
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