Jul 28, 2016

How to sell NFV

by David Island

Is Network Function Virtualization (NFV) a market inflection point, or just an over hyped technology in search of a use case?

· NFV is designed to use x86 hardware, which translates to improved capital efficiencies compared with dedicated hardware implementations.

· Software-based NFV deployment alongside real-time SDN network programing results in rapid service introduction and improved operational efficiencies.

· As NFV enables the decoupling of network functions and their physical location, services can be instantiated at the most cost effective location, in addition to multi-site application availability, scalability and cloud burst real time deployments.

· End to end service life cycle management resulting from common automation and operating procedures translates into operational cost reduction

· Open and standardized interfaces between virtualized network functions and the infrastructure enables service provides to avoid vendor lock in. Each service provider can select its own best-in-class options and run in a multi-vendor environment.