Existing Skills Are Not Enough to Run Virtualized Networks

So you have got your network virtualized! What’s next?

If it’s business as usual, we would move to operation phase and start reaping the virtualization benefits.

But here is a point. It is not just about implementing a technology like SDN or NFV; rather, it’s about the skills to run a network that is virtual, elastic and not hardware centric. Isn’t it quite different from the physical networks we traditionally deal with on a day-to-day basis?

And this point emerged strongly when I talked to multiple executives of Tier 1 and Tier 2 telcos recently about how they foresee the operation of their virtual networks in the future. In particular, what are their big concerns about operating the software-based networks?

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Ray Mota

rmota@acgcc.com
www.acgcc.com

What DevOps Isn’t!

Future virtual networks will bring the much-needed business agility, network agility and service agility to telcos.

But this raises a question:

Are telcos’ operational structures, processes and operation teams ready to handle such agility?

And if not, what do telcos need to meet such challenges?

In fact, organizations need to evolve, one way or the other, to the DevOps model—the agile operational model effectively used by many cloud-based companies.

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Ray Mota

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You’d Love to Have DevOps, But Don’t Know Where to Start!

O.K., so you have got your network virtualized! What’s next?

If it’s business as usual, we would move to operation phase and start reaping the virtualization benefits.

But here is a point. It is not just about implementing a technology like SDN or NFV; rather, it’s about the skills to run a network that is virtual, elastic and not hardware centric. Isn’t it quite different from the physical networks we traditionally deal with on a day-to-day basis?

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Ray Mota

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www.acgcc.com

Webinar: Secure and Scale the Gi-LAN at 80% Lower TCO

Mobile network traffic is expected to increase 45% annually with video representing 60% of all mobile traffic. To meet the demand, networks will need to be intelligently and cost effectively scaled for secure services delivery, especially the Gi-LAN. As volumes grow, the number of concurrent users, connection rates, and throughput will all need to scale together. But how can operators evolve their architectures to support this growth while lowering TCO?

Join F5‘s Misbah Mahmoodi, and ACG’s Paul Parker-Johnson and register for this webinar to learn about:

• The market and business challenges IoT devices, applications and the growing number of users are placing on mobile networks.
• The key criteria to use when architecting for massive scale in application delivery infrastructures.
• Three TCO sizing models you can reference to dimension our network performance needs.

Paul Parker-Johnson

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Service Provider Transformation: Adapting and Adopting, ACG HotSeat Video

Pratik Roychowdhury, Senior Director and Head of Product Management for Contrail at Juniper Networks, and Ray Mota, CEO, ACG Research, discuss today’s constantly evolving competitive landscape; how and why service providers must transform their business, technology and organization to meet the demands and opportunities of the new virtual and cloud world. 

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Ray Mota

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www.acgcc.com

The Business Value of Agility

Infrastucture and service agility require the right tools, and one important tool is operations support system, which allows CSPs to reduce time-to-market and lower the cost of new service creation and deployment, operating in a hybrid infrastructure (traditional and virtualized) during CSP’s business transformation. The focus on this paper is on quantifying the impact of being agile. The paper first provides the definition of agility and then quantifies the time-to-market, service creation and revenue generation advantages of being able to create new services quicker and taking them to market faster. Robert Haim of ACG has determined that there is a 77% savings in labor cost, 13% differential in revenue generation per service launched based on a faster time-to-market advantage and a 47% increase in revenue level based on increased number of services that can be launched.

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         Robert Haim
     rhaim@acgcc.com
       www.acgcc.com