DevOps in NFV: Assuring Health of Service Chains and 5G Network Slices
This post is about how DevOps methodology is implemented in 5G network slices and service chains for active service assurance and monitoring by vendors like Intel, Netrounds, Rift.io, Arctos labs with the help of ETSI’s Open Source MANO (OSM).
Gartner’s Strategic Tech Trends Show the Need for an Empowered Edge and Network for a Smarter World
Take any leading tech vendors – they are all indulged around these technology trends Gartner has listed. They are actively optimising or innovating existing solutions, offering new revolutionary products to support digital growth. But I believe that all the innovation will be consumed by the end user at its fullest when there is continuous upward innovation..
Comprehending Edge Intelligence with Regards to IT Infrastructure
Author interviewed the CTO of Edge Intelligence firm Swim.ai, Simon Crosby. A discussion was about what are the basics of Edge computing, how analytics helps in making ecosystems intelligent to respond to events, how storage will get revolutionized, how upcoming 5G network features will have impact on edge intelliegence, etc
How NFV Deployments are Driven by Open Source Projects
Here’s how open source is helping advance network optimization to support emerging technologies. There is a growing demand for efficient networks with low latency and high bandwidth to support innovations such as autonomous cars, connected devices, machine learning, augmented and virtual reality, and real-time analytics.
Incorporation of OpenStack and Open Source MANO (OSM) for NFV Deployments
Both OpenStack and OSM have a large community that have a rapid pace for innovating NFV & higher contribution by all scale companies to enhance current features and develop new capabilities for core projects under it. For NFV case, OpenStack standardized interfaces between NFV elements and infrastructure.
Top Three IoT Concerns for IT Infrastructure
This article talks about how a proliferation of data due to growing number of devices imposes a burden on current IT infrastructure and what needs to be done to tackle the challenges. Concerns are: need faster and high volume data storage systems, need scalable and agile network with high bandwidth and low latency
NFV Concerns: VNF Performance Benchmarking & Analysis and Common Information Models (CIM)
This article focuses on challenges related to common information models, VNF performance monitoring, benchmarking; analysis and tools. We will also discuss about evaluation & selection of VNF lifecycle management vendor of NFV environment and use of Virtual Probe (vProbe) function for NFVi monitoring.
What is the Status of Containers and Microservices in Enterprises and Telecom
This article covers what are containers and microservices; what are the use cases of containers and microservices in enterprises and telecommunication sectors and evaluation of usability of containers for IT infrastructure. Article also focuses on recent development of containers in network functions ..
Evaluating Container Based VNF Deployment For Cloud Native NFV
Containerization can be possibly implemented in mobile edge computing to provide its benefits but full integration will be expected by service providers to enable cloud-native NFV.
Basics of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) & Challenges
This article is focused on basics of VNFs: what are virtual network functions (VNFs), architecture of virtual network functions (VNFs), what are the basic components (VNFC and VNF Descriptors (VNFD)), challenges with current VNF development and onboarding to NFV environment and how cloud native VNFs can help overcome the challenges.