uCPE/vCPE: Death of the magical black box

vCPE, uCPE, CPE

People today are accustomed to getting their internet from a proprietary, provisioned black box at their homes, but now MSP’s are looking to expand the capabilities of these customer-side appliances with the advent of uCPE and vCPE. Managed Service providers continue to leverage virtualization and edge computing capabilities to decrease OPEX, TTS (time-to-Service) and create …

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The top 3 NFV solutions for improving business agility

Network functions virtualization (NFV) and its subsequent virtual network functions (VNF’s) can’t be developed fast enough for many service providers and business IT organizations. After all, the high level of network automation, commoditized network equipment hardware, and reduced service deployment time/complexity leading to improved network agility are all factors which serve to allow new revenue …

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High-performance, high-availability enterprise SD-WAN and vCPE

Introduction Network functions virtualization (NFV) has come a long way from the conceptual whitepaper released in 2011 by the European telecommunications and standards institute (ETSI). Today, leading communication service providers (SK, AT&T, Verizon, Deusche Telecom to name a few) have made steady progress in these 6 years, virtualizing sizeable chunk of their networks, everyday deploying …

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SD-WAN the most disruptive SDN/NFV solution to date

Software-defined Wide Area Networking is a fast-growing technology which seeks to supplement, or in many cases replace expensive managed lines with software-optimized network fabric running on commodity internet links and general computing hardware. It’s easy to see why many service providers have changed their business tactics, as the next-generation WAN technology offers improvements in efficiency …

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