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Why 5G monetization depends on automation

TM Forum

Rick Hamilton: You can’t fake a digital experience. New capabilities like network slicing also open up all kinds of compelling, new revenue opportunities and use cases. The telecommunications industry has gone through several network advancements. We talk a lot about automation – particularly in the context of 5G.

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Technology Short Take 124

Scott Lowe

Networking. Said van de Klundert has a post on screen scraping basics for network engineers. For network engineers just getting started with network automation, I suspect that the information shared here may prove quite useful. For readers who may be new to networking, Daniel Wray has a write-up on network cabling.

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Technology Short Take 89

Scott Lowe

Networking. This is a slightly older post providing an overview of container networking , but still quite relevant. Russell Bryant has a post on Open Virtual Network (OVN) , a project within the Open vSwitch (OVS) community. Hmm…I didn’t find anything again this time around. Virtualization.

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Technology Short Take #39

Scott Lowe

Networking. I can’t help but wonder if this is the right level at which to put the abstraction layer. For those customers who won’t use a cloud management platform, I would then ask: will they benefit from a CPAL? Don’t think this “software-defined networking” thing is going to take off?

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A Brief Introduction to Linux Containers with LXC

Scott Lowe

Linux containers are getting a fair amount of attention these days (perhaps due to Docker , which leverages LXC on the back-end) as a lightweight alternative to full machine virtualization such as that provided by “traditional” hypervisors like KVM, Xen, or ESXi.

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Telcos need an adaptive architecture to target enterprises

TM Forum

I was in a technical meeting recently when the head of network architecture and strategy for a global mobile operator said, “Telcos don’t want to be telcos anymore.” Consider standard functionality such as 4G/5G network policy and charging. Decoupled architecture increases flexibility.

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Life at VMware, Two Weeks In

Scott Lowe

My entire first week was taken up by new hire onboarding and some training on Nicira’s Network Virtualization Platform (NVP). Some of them I can’t discuss right now (naturally), but I can mention the joint session proposal I helped create for the April OpenStack Summit. Learning NVP, Part 1: High-Level Architecture.

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