…and NFV gets more love

Network functions virtualization (NFV) has been on everyone’s lips recently as mobile service providers look for increasingly cost-efficient ways to optimize services and software vendors look for ways to accommodate them.

ADVA Optical Networking has launched Ensemble, a strategic division and product suite focused purely on network functions virtualization. The company stated its ADVA Ensemble solution provides CSPs with the industry’s most comprehensive NFV product suite, enabling them to choose how they implement NFV by utilizing a choice of hardware platforms, software vendors and deployment locations. 

To help mobile service providers better handle subscriber data in an NFV ecosystem, Openwave Mobility is introducing the industry’s first NFV-compliant subscriber data management solution -- a virtualized User Data Repository (vUDR) for carriers to deploy in NFV environments. Mobile operators can now benefit from faster network provisioning and reduce time-to-market when launching new subscriber-based services to secure revenue streams. SDM:CE has already been deployed by one European Tier 1 group operator for their wireline and wireless customers. 

To help CSPs follow all the NFV players, IHS has released excerpts from its NFV Orchestration Software Vendor Leadership Analysis, which profiles and analyzes 10 leading network functions virtualization (NFV) orchestration software vendors: Brocade, Ciena Blue Planet, Cisco, Dell, Ericsson, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Huawei, Juniper, NEC/Netcracker and Nokia. 

The report looks at vendors’ approaches to, and overall activities in, the NFV orchestration software market to understand how suppliers are approaching this emerging opportunity and gauge the most likely market winners as the market matures. The big revenue opportunities in NFV are with big service providers who want a prime vendor or two that can put together all the multi-vendor software, hardware, partners and services to develop and deploy virtualization to help them meet their fairly urgent needs for automation, agility, and services differentiation.

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