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The biggest value of NFV is doing things that we couldn’t do before. For example, with virtualized services operators can speed up the activation of existing services and deploy new services very quickly without a technician using direct shipment and zero-touch provisioning. That’s because they have decoupled the software-centric services from the underlying hardware. What’s even better, they can extend that dynamism to end users. Here are some examples of how end users can benefit from virtualized services …

The thought of innovation reducing risk may seem counterintuitive. Here’s why telcos should embrace innovation to address a changing environment …

Why embrace innovation and its apparent risks? The short answer is that staying with the status quo is not a way to reduce risk and could actually increase it. The world is rapidly changing, with new opportunities and new threats appearing every day. All companies must find new and innovative ways to advance. And that means using innovation to address both opportunities and threats. Let’s look at some specific threats to telcos and see how innovation can help …

ADVA (FSE: ADV) today announced that it has been named to the Intel Network Builders Winners’ Circle for the third consecutive year. ADVA achieved the status with its Ensemble Connector carrier-class network functions virtualization (NFV) platform as a verified Intel Select Solution for universal CPE (uCPE). The technology gives communication service providers (CSPs) and enterprises a simple and cost-efficient route to virtualization at the network edge. It provides platform security, zero-touch provisioning and access to the market’s most comprehensive library of virtual network functions (VNFs). And through ADVA’s relationship with Intel, Ensemble supports an industry-leading array of third-party hardware suppliers. Customers can deploy a variety of Intel processors, including Intel® Atom® Denverton, Intel® Xeon D®, Intel® Xeon® Scalable and others …

Using standard, open source and cloud-centric tools like OpenStack makes it easy to push the cloud to the far edge and customer edge of the network. This includes use cases around universal CPE (uCPE) and edge compute services at the customer site. It standardizes the deployment and changing of virtual network functions (VNFs). But OpenStack comes at a cost, and some deployments only require single VNFs or are largely static. In those scenarios a KVM-only cloudless model may be the right fit ...

One of the benefits of an open solution like universal CPE (uCPE) is the ability to pick best of breed components. But what happens when there’s a problem? There are different answers, depending on how you decide to deploy the technology.