Virtualization

Time to start saving power, money and real estate in your 5G packet core

As Communications Service Providers (CSPs) worldwide scale up the deployments of their 5G networks, they face strong pressure to optimize their Return on Investment (RoI), given the massive expenses they already incurred to acquire spectrum as well as the ongoing costs of infrastructure rollouts.

Time to stop speculating about “5G’s Uber”

During September, I’ve been very fortunate to attend two actual physical conferences focused on 5G. The first was in Denver Colorado, conveniently just across the Rocky Mountains from my current home in Grand Junction. The second was in London England, 200 miles or so south of my original home in Yorkshire (typically celebrated as the home of the most successful cricket team ever, though puddings also get a well-deserved mention).

May 5, 2021
Charlie Ashton
Blog, Blogger, Charlie Ashton, Open vSwitch, Virtualization
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What will you do with all the money you save in your edge data center?

Charlie Ashton, Senior Director Business Development at Napatech, looks at the importance of power and cost in edge data centers – the process of offloading virtual switching from server CPUs onto programmable Smart Network Interface Cards (SmartNICs).

January 17, 2018
Alex Omø Agerholm
Alex Omø Agerholm, Blog, Blogger, Packet Capture
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Packet Capture As a Service

A blog article by Alex Agerholm, who explains and delves into the concept of packet capture as a service in a virtualized environment.

Effective NFV MANO Calls for Automated NFVI

In the world of fin tech, data capture has never exactly been the sexiest area of development.

But as market participants ready themselves for a new wave of trading rules, and as competition among cutting edge trading firms has shown no sign of abating, the importance of data capture has taken on much greater significance.

Embracing Service Agility, NFV Infrastructure Automation and the New Cloud Reality

At Mobile World Congress recently, I was privileged to be invited to speak on a panel debating NFV. The topic of the panel discussion was “NFV: a re-examination” and included participants from Telefonica, InterDigital Europe, Cisco, Spirent and Red Hat.