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uCPE/vCPE: Death of the magical black box

James Piedra — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 18:56:57 +0000

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 ...

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

James Piedra — Mon, 03 Jul 2017 16:28:12 +0000

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 ...

v-RAN a crucial step for SDN/NFV and 5G

James Piedra — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 00:42:25 +0000

Network functions virtualization (NFV) has forever changed carrier cloud computing and networking, emerging as a truly flexible, scalable, manageable and open network implementation. Efforts to implement this game-changing technology began in the core networks of service providers, eventually reaching the network edge where minimal latencies can create a plethora of new services and application previously ...