NFV/SDN Reality Check: NFV And SDN Trends In 2015, And What To Expect In 2016 – Episode 43

On this week’s show we speak with Sonus on NFV and SDN trends we saw in 2015 and what to expect in 2016.

For this week’s featured interview, we spoke with Myk Konrad, VP of go-to-Market for Sonus, to get his insight into the major network functions virtualization and software-defined networking trends we saw in 2015 and what he expects to see across the market in 2016.

But first, some of the top headlines from the NFV and SDN space for this week:

ADVA Optical Networking boosted its cloud and NFV efforts with an acquisition of Overture Networks. According to ADVA, the deal combines two of the market’s largest carrier Ethernet access equipment makers and bolsters its NFV and cloud platforms.

Financial terms of the deal were not released.

In other NFV and SDN news this week, Hewlett Packard Enterprise launched its Service Director platform, which the company said is designed to help CSPs manage services across hybrid network architectures.

HPE, which late last year was spun off from HP’s computer and printer-focused consumer division, said Service Director taps automation to foster interoperability for managing services in NFV deployments and existing physical environments.

The offer also builds on HPE’s NFV Director’s management and orchestration capabilities and is set to join the company’s Open NFV portfolio.

Specific features of the new platform include closed-loop automation of assurance and fulfillment for unified operations; shared information utilizing common data designed to help ensure quality and accuracy; dynamic service descriptors for open and flexible modeling of services to help boost operational agility; and claims of openness allowing the ability to interface with third-party components, “including [software-defined networking] controllers and policy engines, to enable dynamic, highly personalized modes of service delivery

“There is no such thing as a greenfield NFV implementation,” said David Sliter, VP and GM for communications and media solutions at HPE, in a statement. “HPE Service Director is a transformational change in the relationship between assurance and fulfillment, allowing the [operating support system] resource pool to be treated, automated and managed as a service. Our approach provides a more dynamic service model, enabling CSPs to bridge existing physical and new environments and dramatically improve their service agility.”

Orchestration between legacy, physical equipment and virtualized platforms has been a significant barrier for the continued rollout of software platforms by telecom operators using NFV and SDN technology.

Make sure to check us out again next week when we will look at top news items from the week as well as speak with the ONOS Project to get an update on its SDN platform work.

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