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Open source: How to speed NFV and SDN deployment

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Released: Friday, July 31, 2015

Open source technology is becoming increasingly important in service providers’ virtualization strategies because it can: significantly reduce the time and cost of developing new products and services; enable greater multivendor interoperability than the traditional standardization model does; and increase network security by allowing more people to scrutinize the underlying code.

In this report we:

  • provide an overview of open source
  • discuss how it is fundamentally different from traditional methods of collaboration and standardization
  • examine how it enables NFV and SDN
  • identify the biggest challenges, many of which are cultural
  • look at the major players in open source initiatives focusing on NFV and SDN such as the Open Networking Foundation, OpenDaylight, OpenStack and Open Platform for NFV
  • look at what these open-source groups are currently doing to advance NFV and SDN deployment and how service providers and suppliers view open source
  • examine how open source can provide the multi-vendor interoperability that network operators seek while preserving vendors’ ability to differentiate their products based on more than price alone
From the analyst

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– Three reasons why open-source software is good for network operators 
– Open source: Too many cooks?

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Tim Kridel
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