From a telco viewpoint these concepts can help to both reduce OPEX and open the door to new business opportunities. In this article, we identify how telcos can benefit from the above mentioned paradigms, and explore some of the aspects that still need to be addressed in the NFV domain. We focus on two major aspects: enabling telco infrastructures to adopt this new paradigm, and orchestrating and managing SFs toward telco-ready cloud infrastructures.
Full abstract in IEEE Xplore, DOI:10.1109/MCOM.2015.7045397
Authors
João Soares, Ericsson Research; Carlos Gonçalves, NEC Laboratories; Bruno Parreira, Paulo Teveres, João Paulo Barraca,Rui L. Aguiar, Susana Sargento, Instituto de Telecomunicações: Jorge Carapinha, Portugal Telecom Inovação e Sistemas.
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