VMware Is Getting Serious About Telcos & NFV
Summary
Among the latest moves was the hiring of Gabriele Di Piazza as vice president of telco NFV products three-and-a-half months ago. Carrier-grade support for the NFV suite — including products such as vSphere, vCloud director, and NSX — launched to general availability on July 1, Di Piazza says. He has also assembled a team to work on end-to-end NFV designs, targeting the use cases that VMware has encountered the most, including IMS, the evolved packet core (EPC), and voice over LTE (VoLTE). The company plans to demonstrate some extensions to Open Source MANO (OSM) at that group’s October meeting in Santa Clara, California. But there’s also this: Server virtualization is past its peak as a growth market, and VMware has to start cultivating other businesses — hence, its deep interest in the cloud.
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