NFV
Canonical announcements
SnapRoute and Canonical create new switch stack for network operators
by Canonical on 22 August 2017
Redefining the economics of data center networking through disaggregation of hardware, operating system, and software components. SnapRoute and Canonical...
Cloud and server
Carrier Cloudification: What every telecom executive needs to know
by Tom Callway on 29 March 2017
New imperatives, technologies, and the emergence of the public cloud are forcing telecom service providers to rethink and validate their fundamental business...
Cloud and server
Big software has arrived
by Canonical on 3 October 2016
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...
Cloud and server
Etisalat partners with Canonical to Deploy NFV Telco Infrastructure
by Canonical on 13 July 2016
Etisalat, the Middle East’s leading telecoms provider announced today (download PDF) that it has built and launched its first live Network Function...
Cloud and server
Special report: Low latency and real-time kernels for telco and NFV
by Canonical on 15 June 2016
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...
Cloud and server
eBook: CTO’s guide to SDN, NFV & VNF
by Alexia Emmanoulopoulou on 16 May 2016
Networking and communications standards and methodologies are undergoing the greatest transition since the migration from analogue to digital. The shift is...
Cloud and server
The new simplicity to consume DPDK
by Christian Ehrhardt on 5 May 2016
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...
Cloud and server
Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 4 Recap
by Canonical on 26 February 2016
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...
Cloud and server
Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 3 Recap
by Canonical on 25 February 2016
Ubuntu OpenStack running SDN, VNFs and virtualised customer premise equipment (vCPE) The third day of Mobile World Congress was an demonstration in what’s...
Cloud and server
Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 2 Recap
by Canonical on 24 February 2016
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...
Cloud and server
Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 1 Recap
by Canonical on 23 February 2016
Bhaskar Gorti, President, Applications and Analytics at Nokia discusses Service Modeling and NFV deploymentThis is my first Mobile World Congress (MWC), and I...
Cloud and server
Canonical’s VNF PIL for NFV scale out architectures
by John Zannos on 22 February 2016
Co-authored by Nic Lemieux, Artur Tyloch and John Zannos The promise of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is to supply Service Providers a way to create...