We are pleased to share with you all an interesting article contributed by Prayson Pate.

 

 

I have been writing blogs and making videos about NFV and SDN for over 3 years now. Here is a categorized collection that may be useful for those just diving in.

 

 

 

NFV and SDN

• “NFV and SDN: What's the Difference?” - SDxCentral - March 30, 2013

• “SDN, NFV and Future Innovation” – Technically Speaking - September 9, 2013

• “Service Provider Realism About SDN” - SDNCentral - January 21, 2014

• “Blueprint: NFV, SDN and Carrier Ethernet Make Progress” - Converge! Network Digest - March 18, 2014

• “SDN and NFV: Expect the Unexpected” - Pipeline Magazine - Innovation - June 23, 2014

• “Routing is More Than Routers” - CIO Review - Juniper Networks Special Edition, pp 44-45 - January 9, 2015

• “The Case for Pure-Play Virtualization” - Light Reading - May 8, 2015

• “Real-World NFV, Real Lessons Learned” - LinkedIn Pulse - July 8, 2015

• “Carrier Ethernet and NFV” (co-author) - MEF - July 28, 2016

• “Leveraging Existing Networks for Virtualized Services” - Walker Skinny Wire - Summer 2016 – pages 10 and 11

• “SDN and NFV Drive Change, But Not Everywhere” – Technically Speaking - August 12, 2016

Commercialization, Cost and Profitability

• “Hard Truths about Software Licensing for NFV” - LinkedIn Pulse - July 13, 2015

• “Optimizing Profitability with Pure-Play NFV” - Pipeline Magazine - August 2015

• “The Business Value of Software-Defined Networking” - Enterprise Networking Magazine - May 2016 - page 18

• “The Real Reason to Deploy NFV: New Revenue” - Lightwave - September 12, 2016

Orchestration, MANO and Automation

• “What Does Orchestration Mean for NFV?” – Technically Speaking – October 6, 2013

• “Automation or Services — Which Comes First?” - SDNCentral - July 8, 2014

• “Leave Manual Orchestration to Symphony Orchestrators” – LinkedIn Pulse - June 19, 2015

• “Orchestration for NFV Needs Scale and Resiliency” – Technically Speaking - May 18, 2016

• “Defining MANO: Open Source vs. Standards” - Light Reading - October 26, 2016

• “Making MANO Easy” - SDxCentral - October 28, 2016

Edge Virtualization / vCPE / MicroCloud / Embedded Cloud

• “Bringing the Power of the Cloud to the Metro Edge” - Converge! Network Digest - June 16, 2013

• “Network Functions Virtualisation - going small has a big upside” - Connect-World EMEA 2014 - October 2014

• “Edge Virtualization and Micro-Clouds” – Technically Speaking - April 28, 2015

• “Pure-Play Virtualization versus SFPs” - LinkedIn Pulse - August 30, 2015

• “It's a Server!” - LinkedIn Pulse - September 8, 2015

• “Leveraging NFV Infrastructure to Drive Revenue” - Technically Speaking - February 22, 2016

• “Bringing The Cloud to a Business Near You” - Technically Speaking - March 17, 2016

• “Open vSwitch is No Match for ADVA Ensemble Connector Performance” - Technically Speaking - May 16, 2016

• “Can Cloud in a Box Address OpenStack Issues?” - Technically Speaking - June 8, 2016

• “NFV and MEC: What's the Difference?" - MEC Congress blog - September 20, 2016

• “Virtual CPE: Gateway to NFV Success” – ADVA web site - November 9, 2016

Analytics

• “Real Intelligence is Required for Virtualized Services” - Connect-World Asia-Pacific III 2014, pp 22-24 - March 23, 2015

• “Virtualize but Verify” - CIO Review - April 2015 - pp 40-41

SD-WAN and SmartWAN

• “SD-WAN 2.0: Building A Better SD-WAN” - Technically Speaking - June 22, 2016

• “SD-WAN 2.0: Evolving to a Complete Solution” - SDxCentral - August 12, 2016

• “Ensemble SmartWAN: Transforming SD-WAN” – Technically Speaking - December 1, 2016

• "Ensemble SmartWAN Explained" (video) - Light Reading - January 5, 2017

Cloud Access

• “Simplifying Private Cloud Delivery - Part 1” - Cloud Computing Magazine - 4th Quarter 2013 - January 3, 2014

• “Simplifying Private Cloud Delivery - Part 2” - Cloud Computing Magazine - 1st Quarter 2014 - February 3, 2014

• “It's All About The Cloud” - Technically Speaking - August 17, 2016

Service Assurance

• “Assuring Symmetric Physical Delay” - Technically Speaking - February 24, 2016

• “Assuring Cloud Connectivity” - Technically Speaking - July 19, 2016

Staffing and Organization for Innovation

• “Staffing and Organizing for Telco Innovation – Part 1” – LinkedIn Pulse - January 15, 2016

• “Staffing and Organizing for Telco Innovation – Part 2” - LinkedIn Pulse - January 25, 2016

• “Staffing and Organizing for Telco Innovation – Part 3” - LinkedIn Pulse - February 1, 2016

The Real CTOs of NFV

• Martin Taylor, Metaswitch - LinkedIn Pulse - September 21, 2015

• Doug Suriano, Oracle - LinkedIn Pulse - September 28, 2015

• Randy Nicklas, Windstream - LinkedIn Pulse - October 19, 201

• Gareth Noyes, Wind River - LinkedIn Pulse - October 26, 2015

• Jerome Tollet, Qosmos - LinkedIn Pulse - November 10, 2015

• Jason Koenders, Integra - LinkedIn Pulse - November 16, 2015

• Aamir Hussain, CenturyLink - LinkedIn Pulse - November 30, 2015

• Kevin Riley, Sonus - LinkedIn Pulse - December 14, 2015

• Krish Prabhu, AT&T - LinkedIn Pulse - January 5, 2016

• Tim Naramore, Masergy - LinkedIn Pulse - January 13, 2016

• David Hughes, Silver Peak - LinkedIn Pulse - January 20, 2016

• Satya Baddipudi, DartPoints - LinkedIn Pulse - February 15, 2016

The Real Innovators of Networking

• Christoph Glingener, ADVA Optical Networking - LinkedIn Pulse - May 26, 2016

• Peter Klostermaier, Computacenter - LinkedIn Pulse - September 14, 2016

• Todd McWhirter, Zayo Group - LinkedIn Pulse - December 16, 2016

Ensemble Explained Videos

• “Ensemble Explained” - ADVA YouTube Channel - August 5, 2016

• “Ensemble Harmony Ecosystem Explained” - ADVA YouTube Channel - July 25, 2016

• “Ensemble Connector Explained” - ADVA YouTube Channel - August 19, 2016

• “Ensemble Orchestrator Explained” - ADVA YouTube Channel - September 1, 2016

• “Ensemble Controller Explained” - ADVA YouTube Channel - October 11, 2016

• “Ensemble Director Explained” - ADVA YouTube Channel - October 25, 2016

• “Ensemble Analytics Explained” - ADVA YouTube Channel - November 1, 2016

Tech Bytes Videos

• “What is the Future of SD-WAN?” - ADVA YouTube Channel - September 9, 2016

• “What Are the Benefits of vCPE?” - ADVA YouTube Channel - September 16, 2016

• “Why Is Choice Important for VNF Hosting?” - ADVA YouTube Channel - September 20, 2016

• “What is Cloud in a Box?” - ADVA YouTube Channel - October 21, 2016

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