The network team is being bombarded with configuration requests that can take days or weeks to handle, but luckily several approaches are emerging that promise to increase network agility, chief among ...

For decades, networks have been built on the same fundamental principle: dedicated hardware appliances for each network function. Need a firewall? Buy a box. Need load balancing? Purchase another ...

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) represents a paradigm shift in telecommunications and data-centre architectures by decoupling traditional network functions from specialised hardware and ...

People have been talking about software defined networking and its related network function virtualization for so long that it must appear to many organizations that everyone else is doing it. But in ...

The strategic relationship will use Alcatel-Lucent's CloudBand NFV platform to identify and develop process models to help service providers decide which elements within the network should be ...