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Wind River upgrades vCPE NFV server offering

Intel subsidiary Wind River has added to its NFV portfolio with the announcement of a new product which focuses on the virtualization of customer premises equipment (vCPE).

• 09 Feb 2016

Huawei and Telefónica claim first SDN IP+Optical trial in Peru

Kit vendor Huawei and operator Telefónica have laid claim to the industry’s first ‘SDN IP+Optical’ trial network with real traffic following a migration of commercial user traffic in Peru.

• 02 Feb 2016

SDN: it’s not all smoke and mirrors

As an increasing number of enterprise users look for solutions that leverage hardware in a vendor-agnostic fashion and look for integrations and interoperability with applications and infrastructure residing in the cloud, they will have no choice but to embrace SDN.

• 01 Feb 2016

Juniper Networks buys BTI for its SDN tools

Data centre infrastructure vendor Juniper Networks is to buy BTI Systems, a specialist developer of software-defined networking (SDN) tools and networking hardware.

• 27 Jan 2016

BT claims new Connect Intelligence IWAN service is software defined first

BT has launched a new managed comms service that uses software defined networking techniques to automatically optimise network traffic.

• 26 Jan 2016

OpenStack makes its move on booming NFV market

A new report indicates that there could be a boom in network function virtualisation projects this year, with NFV the second most popular subject of research after containers.

• 21 Jan 2016

SDN specialist Big Switch wins $48.5M funding

Santa Clara based software defined networking vendor Big Switch Networks (BSN) has won another $48.5 million to bring its bare metal networking fabrics to new markets.

• 19 Jan 2016

HPE launches Service Director designed to simplify NFV management

HPE claims its new Service Director system could put comms service providers back in control of their increasingly complex hybrid computing estates,” reports BCN.

• 15 Jan 2016

Openet seeks to promote open NFV with free version of its VNF manager

Irish BSS company Openet will be making its VNF Lifecycle Manager software available for free from March 2016 in a bid to promote openness and standardisation of NFV.

• 08 Jan 2016

Ten telecoms industry predictions for 2016

Telecoms.com partnered with mobile industry consultancy Northstream to bring you ten predictions for the telecoms industry in the coming year.

• 24 Dec 2015

Mobile Edge Computing group announces PoCs, targets video optimisation

As the Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) working group at ETSI passes the one year milestone, the standards body has announced the development of three proof of concepts demonstrating the capabilities of the technology.

• 24 Dec 2015

China Telecom, HPE open Beijing NFV lab

China Telecom has announced that its Beijing Research Institute has collaborated with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to open a dedicated NFV lab in China.

• 23 Dec 2015

Begin monetising SDN & NFV today

Software-defined networking and network functions virtualization have heralded in a new era of possibility for operators in a telecoms industry becoming progressively more fixated on delivering diverse, converged and cloud-based services. While SDN and NFV certainly have potential, it’s the orchestration of virtual services that will make the potential of virtualization a more tangible reality. […]

• 14 Dec 2015

The time for NFV and SDN is now

It’s just a matter of time. By 2018 – according to industry research – monthly global mobile data will surpass 15 Exabytes. That’s ten times the number consumed on the network at the end of 2013!

• 14 Dec 2015

Huawei unveils Application Driven Network architecture concept

Chinese networking giant Huawei has revealed its plans for a new network architecture concept it’s calling Application Driven Network (ADN).

• 10 Dec 2015

Telefónica hails success of virtualisation technology tests on ZTE’s Cloud Unicore

Mobile comms equipment maker ZTE and telco Telefónica have jointly tested a range of virtual network functions (VNFs) from ZTE’s Cloud UniCore portfolio.

• 09 Dec 2015

NFV – a path to fixing the interoperability obstacle

For CSPs, the bifurcated network created by NFV makes perfect sense. We all know the software lifecycle is completely different to that of network hardware.

• 07 Dec 2015

Nokia Networks creates OpenFastPath Foundation to enhance SDN development

Software defined networking could get a boost as Nokia Networks, ARM and Enea have formed the OpenFastPath (OFP) Foundation to speed the progress of SDN.

• 04 Dec 2015

Cisco seeks to simplify SDN with ACI release

Cisco claims that customers can take a further step towards network automation as it launched a new release of Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) software to its software defined networking range, reports BCN.

• 04 Dec 2015

F5 CEO on NFV, IoT, Security and Moore’s Law

It is commonly accepted that telecoms operators face a variety of pressures in what is a rapidly developing and highly innovative industry, technology-wise.

• 03 Dec 2015