The mobile
telecommunications industry is at the verge of a unique business crossroads.
The growing gap between capacity and demand is an urgent call for new
approaches and alternative network technologies to enable mobile operators to
achieve more with less.
Today, mobile broadband data
is growing at an annual rate of 40-50 percent per year in the U.S. and other
regions globally. Mobile service providers address these rapidly expanding
traffic volumes through deployment of additional network functions, which will
be a significant capital expenditure (CAPEX) challenge. The nature of that
mobile broadband data traffic is also evolving with new services including new
video applications, connected cars and the Internet of Things (IoT). This rapid
capacity growth and increasing traffic diversity in LTE networks stresses the
assumptions of existing network architectures and operational paradigms.
Network Functions
Virtualization (NFV) provides a new path that can increase the flexibility
required by mobile service providers and network operators to adapt and
accommodate this dynamic market environment. NFV is a new operational approach
applying well-known virtualization technologies to create a physical Commercial
Off-the-Shelf (COTS) distributed platform for the delivery of end-to-end
services in the context of the demanding environment of telecom network
infrastructure and applications. Much of the terminology of NFV used today
originated from the initial European Telecom Standards Institute (ETSI) white
paper titled, Network Functions Virtualisation – Introductory White Paper . GET MORE INSIGHTS FROM THE
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