Upside for Network Function Virtualization Apps in Asia

Telecom service providers in the Asia-Pacific region are actively virtualizing their network architecture. A flurry of new applications development is driven by open source communities — such as OPNFV and ONAP — as well as from individual efforts by telcos.

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Converged Infrastructure for a Network-Enabled Cloud

Cloud computing services supported by converged networks will create new opportunities for forward-looking senior executives to make informed decisions and gain significant new strategic competitive advantages.

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Network Function Virtualization Revenue to Reach $38 Billion

Open source hardware and software projects continue to gain momentum in the global telecom sector. However, after a relatively slow start, the Network Function Virtualization (NFV) market will experience growth through ongoing technology investments by major telecommunication service providers.

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Telecom Providers Adapt to New Enterprise IT Demands

Enterprise networking vendors and telecom service providers encountered a series of challenges in 2016, as more customers shifted their focus from managing business technology investment to the strategic procurement of products and services related to digital transformation projects.

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OpenStack Gains Momentum within the Telecom Sector

Informed telecommunications service providers have reduced their infrastructure cost and improved their development agility by adopting open source software.  According to findings from a recent survey, 85.8 percent of telecom industry respondents consider OpenStack to be essential or important to their success.

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Software Defined Networking Moves into the Mainstream

The top drivers for service provider SDN investments are simplification and automation of network and service provisioning. Meanwhile, most operators are moving from initial SDN proof-of-concept evaluations to their first commercial deployments in 2016 and 2017.

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SDN and NFV Telecom Tech Gain Global Market Momentum

Traditional telecom networking equipment vendors have been preparing for the ongoing transition from hardware-centric business models of the past to a more software-oriented model. Meanwhile, the leading telecom service providers continue to adopt low-cost commodity hardware and open source software.

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How SDN and NFV Lead Open Technology Transformation

The traditional carrier networking equipment sector has been awaiting a major transition, as telecom service providers sought a way to free themselves from the constraints of proprietary platforms. Open source software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) hold the key to progress.

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How NFV, SDN and Cloud are Disrupting the Telecom Sector

Telecom vendors continue to seek ways to balance revenue growth and margin improvement, but are struggling to increase both ends of that equation, especially with new technologies such as NFV, SDN and cloud threatening to disrupt the traditional sales model.

Source: TBR

How Cloud, SDN and NFV are Transforming Telecom

The Telecom Infrastructure Services (TIS) market in North America will decline from $30.4 billion in 2015 to $27.4 billion in 2021 at a CAGR of -1.7 percent, according to TBR. Telecom network operators will shift their focus to software-mediated networks, specifically orchestration, automation, SDN and NFV.

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