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DHagar
DHagar
7/18/2017 6:31:47 PM
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Re: Once again, #1 is interesting but unsurprising, #2 is a surprise
@dcawrey, the adoption phase DOES take time!  And particularly when you are transforming the models and concepts.  People learn by discovery and the mass will follow the leaders who have discovered the benefitis of NFV.

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DHagar
DHagar
7/18/2017 6:29:53 PM
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Re: For once, "tipping point" is a good metaphor
@JohnBarns, great insights, as always!  And don't you believe that the "hurdle" of crossing the lines and moving beyond trying to control one's space and moving into collaboration and joining a system with co-creation takes another level of courage and development to move forward?

Great survey, Mike

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dcawrey
dcawrey
7/17/2017 4:39:46 PM
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Re: Once again, #1 is interesting but unsurprising, #2 is a surprise
I have no doubt NFV is going to play a huge role in networks over the past decade. One thing I am noticing though is that we've been talking about NFV for years. I think the period of time between when we first start talking about technologies like this versus when it becomes commonplace is a huge gap. 

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JohnBarnes
JohnBarnes
7/17/2017 4:27:47 PM
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Once again, #1 is interesting but unsurprising, #2 is a surprise
NFV is sort of a kudzu or the Borg (but in a positive way)  -- "Resistance is futile, prepare to be assimilated." There's no real reason other than habit or just needing some time to keep it out.  So for network functions, it has replaced a huge number of local hardware based systems and is replacing more of them, and that's not surprising, because pretty much everyone in every business just wants a network that works well at low cost, and the faster they get to NFV, the better their networks work and the less they pay for it.

But OSS and BSS, as I used to be fond of noting, contain huge amounts of embedded business practices and a great deal of accumulated policy -- or, if you will, the corporate "wisdom" at least as much as its information -- and have large vested constituencies in many companies that would like them to stay the same. I'd have thought their migration to NFV was going to be slow, painful, and incremental.

Apparently not.

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JohnBarnes
JohnBarnes
7/17/2017 4:16:20 PM
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For once, "tipping point" is a good metaphor
It's been clear for a long time that the cost and flexibility advantages of NFV are so large that localized, hardware based solutions weren't going to compete except in the most unusual circumstances, any more than passenger rail or ocean liners was going to compete with airlines or gas lighting with electricity.  It was really just a matter of having enough of the right things widely available (since as soon as they were available, they were cheaper, and they could almost immediately do anything the older systems could, plus a  lot more). In a situation where most of the world is already in the expensive, inflexible mode, and another cheaper, flexible mode is rapidly becoming availalbe, expect there to be a tipping point, and once things tip, expect the avalanche.

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clrmoney
clrmoney
7/17/2017 12:31:58 PM
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NFV Rising for Virtualization
Network Function Virtualizations/NFV has many things to networking connection and security etc. They have a lot of things going on like OSS/Cloud so the future looks bright.

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