Telco cloud evolution - what really matters?
Since the advent of Network Functions Virtualisation and Software Defined Networking (NFV/SDN) [1], telecoms operators like BT have followed a route to adoption for building and controlling their own on-premise cloud infrastructure, particularly suited for telecoms workloads and applications. The main drivers for this hinge around the core principle of disaggregation, whereby hardware and software components can be provided by separate best-of-breed providers, and softwarised network functions can be provisioned and lifecycle managed in a much more agile and flexible fashion than their hardware-based predecessors.
Key Takeaways
- ✓ Telecom companies often utilise specialised protocols beyond standard HTTP/S to handle the unique requirements of telecom operations
- ✓ It is highly likely
- ✓ that many of the initial deployments of
- ✓ NFVI/telco cloud would be based on COTS
- ✓ (Commodity-Off-The-Shelf) servers with
- ✓ CPU-based architectures and fairly standard
- ✓ Network Interface Cards (NICs)
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