Mobile operators and internet service providers have already begun making
SDN and NFV investments in a number of functional areas including but not limited to EPC/mobile core, IMS, policy control, CPE (Customer Premises Equipment), CDN (Content Delivery Network) and transport networks.
Huawei used
SDN based RTN900 microwave equipment with OpenFlow interface for the PoC.
The
SDN Excellence Award list is an annual recognition featuring companies that are having a profound impact on the IT and Telecom industries and are leading the way in
SDN architecture and applications.
Network operators will demand open
SDN, not vendor
SDN.
Sullivan:
SDN with its programmability paradigm expands the heterogeneity of use cases and deployment modes - each customer will have specific programs to best fit their needs from the network.
Many tier 1 service providers like AT&T (T), Verizon (VZ), Deutsche Telekom (DTE), France Telecom (FT), Telefonica (TEF), and others are pushing the
SDN and NFV concepts.
The simplicity and automation enabled by HP's
SDN solution, removes complexity and will allow us to accelerate the delivery of next-generation services.
Before
SDN develops into a mature technology, some IT fundamentals and best practices will remain critical as certain key architectural choices and burning issues with
SDN need to be addressed:
SDN is jointly owned by NTL, United Business Media and S4C, and Wyn Innes of S4C was tasked with the restructuring, taking up the acting part-time role of
SDN's chief executive.
Examination of the technologies and components involved in
SDNIt is not only the industry's first open source
SDN controller platform, but also an advanced open source community.
In support of ONF's initiatives, we believe that the next generation of networking in China is
SDN and the OpenFlow protocol," said Liu Dong, director of Bll.
