The vendor will remain committed to OpenStack until “I turn off the last LTE [virtualized network function] that’s running on it," exec Ian Hood said. Hood’s commitment comes on the heels of Red Hat ...
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 ...
Cloud native networks are not SDN reborn but a fundamentally different way to look at networks. While SDN seemed to take physical network machines and virtualized them, CNFs are not merely ...