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OSS/BSS: The Sticking Point for Success in SDN/NFV

In a recent article on SDxCentral.com they talked about OSS/BSS being the main challenge to successfully implementing NFV and SDN solutions in your network. This is so true, and one of the primary drivers of what we at Itential are trying to achieve with our Application Platform. Traditional OSS is built around the idea of a

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The Current State of NFV: Virtual Network Functions

  This may be one of the shorter blogs in this series, as it is very straightforward. In this one I want to focus on Virtual Network Functions, where they are today and where they are headed. In recent years, as cloud environments have become more and more common, vendors have begun creating virtualized versions of

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Disaggregation and the Operational Nightmare It Presents

One of the big trends discussed at the OpenStack Summit in Austin a few weeks ago was the idea of disaggregation. While traditional thinking in the network world has been to aggregate as much as possible; in the NFV world the dominant model is quite the opposite. First you have OpenStack itself, which is a conglomeration

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