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"NFV"

Stephan Fabel
17 November 2017

Edging Closer – ODS Sydney

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Despite the fact that OpenStack’s mission statement has not fundamentally changed since the inception of the project in 2010, we have found many different interpretations of the technology through the years. One of them was that OpenStack would be an all-inclusive anything-as-a-service, in a striking parallel to the many different definit ...

Canonical
22 August 2017

SnapRoute and Canonical create new switch stack for network operators

Canonical announcements Ubuntu tech blog

Redefining the economics of data center networking through disaggregation of hardware, operating system, and software components. SnapRoute and Canonical announced today an integrated network stack, creating a rock solid software foundation for white-box and brite-box switch deployments in large environments. FlexSwitch from SnapRoute is ...

Tom Callway
29 March 2017

Carrier Cloudification: What every telecom executive needs to know

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

New imperatives, technologies, and the emergence of the public cloud are forcing telecom service providers to rethink and validate their fundamental business assumptions. The cloud has forced today’s telecom service providers to transform and perform at increasingly high speeds, counter to their normal mode of operations. Due to customer ...

Canonical
3 October 2016

Big software has arrived

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

It’s time for IT to let software do more of the work The world of business technology is under tremendous pressure and most organizations are ill-equipped to deal with the challenges and opportunities that are arising. Software as a Service, big data, cloud, scale-out, containers and microservices are not just buzz-words they are disrupti ...

Canonical
13 July 2016

Etisalat partners with Canonical to Deploy NFV Telco Infrastructure

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Etisalat, the Middle East’s leading telecoms provider announced today (download PDF) that it has built and launched its first live Network Function Virtualization telco cloud in Abu Dhabi. The NFV-based telco infrastructure has been built with Quanta servers, Arista switches and Canonical’s Ubuntu OpenStack, a multi-vendor combination int ...

Canonical
15 June 2016

Special report: Low latency and real-time kernels for telco and NFV

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

The kernel is the fundamental core of a computer operating system. It is the first program to load, and it manages all core functions of the computer. With the expanding role of the Linux kernel in systems today, Canonical is often asked to provide leadership and support for kernel offerings for many purposes. Recently, Network ...

Alexia Emmanoulopoulou
16 May 2016

eBook: CTO’s guide to SDN, NFV & VNF

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

  Networking and communications standards and methodologies are undergoing the greatest transition since the migration from analogue to digital. The shift is from function-specific, proprietary devices to software-enabled commodity hardware. Why is the transition happening and why is it important? Read this eBook to: familiarise yourself ...

Christian Ehrhardt
5 May 2016

The new simplicity to consume DPDK

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

DPDK is a fast moving project comprised of a set of libraries and drivers for fast packet processing. It utilizes polling threads, huge pages, numa locality and multi core processing to achieve low latencies and a high packet processing rate. Up until recently most guides to consume or experiment with DPDK looked like this: Download ...

Canonical
26 February 2016

Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 4 Recap

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Software Defined LTE 5G Radio demo at the Ubuntu booth At an event the size of Mobile World Congress, the last day is filled with the hurried rush to get everything in that you might have missed. The major topics of the day were startups and upstarts, and upcoming mobile protocols standards and implementations. There ...

Canonical
25 February 2016

Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 3 Recap

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Ubuntu OpenStack running SDN, VNFs and virtualised customer premise equipment (vCPE) The third day of Mobile World Congress was an demonstration in what’s going to be the ‘new normal’. Well, maybe not normal, but it gave us a glimpse into how virtualised network functions (VNFs), industrial IoT, and over-the-top (OTT) services may be evol ...

Canonical
24 February 2016

Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 2 Recap

Cloud and server Ubuntu tech blog

Day 2 of Mobile World Congress was awesome. The overarching theme of the day was again focused on NFV (Network Functions Virtualisation). But before we get to that, I’m excited to announce that Canonical received a Best of Show award from Trusted Reviews for the BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Tablet. A huge crowd gathered to ...

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