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Intel DPDK - A Technology that is Thriving

Intel DPDK - A Technology that is Thriving

For far too many times, the world of open source software gives way to a plethora of standards and reference designs that are supposed to make users’ life easier, improve...

10 years 11 months ago

RIP OVDK: High-Performance Virtual Switching Available Now in Commercial Telecom Platform

RIP OVDK: High-Performance Virtual Switching Available Now in Commercial Telecom Platform

Intel recently announced that they have discontinued the OVDK virtual switch ( SDNCentral article here). This prompted questions from service providers and Telecom Equipment...

Gremlin Free Zone

Gremlin Free Zone

I recently conducted a live demo of our Wind River Titanium Server product during one of SDNCentral’s DemoFridays. This was a great way to reach a wide and highly relevant audience...

How Do We Minimize Downtime in NFV?

How Do We Minimize Downtime in NFV?

At the recent SDN and OpenFlow World Congress in Dusseldorf, I was invited to give a talk about the cost of downtime in telecom networks and how this financial impact might be...

11 years 1 month ago

ETSI NFV Proof of Concept #22

ETSI NFV Proof of Concept #22

I recently returned from a hectic week at the 2014 SDN & OpenFlow World Congress in Düsseldorf, Germany. This show has grown to become one of the biggest events in the NFV industry...

11 years 1 month ago

Wanted: Virtual Switching without Compromise

Wanted: Virtual Switching without Compromise

At the recent Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, there was lots of discussion about the tradeoffs associated with various approaches to virtual switching. In this post, we’ll...

11 years 1 month ago

How Virtual Switch Performance Improves Service Provider OPEX

How Virtual Switch Performance Improves Service Provider OPEX

This post will explain how increasing the performance of the virtual switch in an NFV platform causes very significant improvements in service provider opex. We’ll show an example...

11 years 3 months ago

5 barriers to NFV – and how to tackle those challenges

5 barriers to NFV – and how to tackle those challenges

Network functions virtualization has fast become of part of the road map for equipment vendors, operators and other suppliers in the industry. However, many see the transition from...

11 years 4 months ago

Wanted: One Copy of ‘NFV Orchestration for Dummies’

Wanted: One Copy of ‘NFV Orchestration for Dummies’

Thanks to all the work done by the ETSI NFV Industry Specification Group (ISG), it seems that everyone working in this space has a precise, shared understanding of most of the...

11 years 5 months ago

What Makes “Carrier Grade” Reliability So Hard?

What Makes “Carrier Grade” Reliability So Hard?

I recently talked about the need for full Carrier Grade reliability in telecom networks. Today’s telecom networks are incredibly reliable. Over decades, service providers have...

11 years 6 months ago