Kenneth Hui @rubrikInc HQ5
What are the reasons that Telcos have embraced OpenStack so quickly for NFV?
Steve
key NFV drivers include agility/flexibility align well with high level OpenStack design and focus of providing public APIs with many swappable backend options.
Russell Bryant
I think many of the reasons they want this type of infrastructure matches reasons across all verticals. operational efficiency, common platform and APIs, ...
Steve
Challenges along the way in terms of dealing with the additional abstraction versus the level of access used traditionally while trying to extract same performance, SLAs, etc.
Russell Bryant
@xsgordon indeed, interesting to explore the things holding them back and what makes their use case different
Sriram Subramanian
We need to give credit to better success rate among early OpenStack adopters from Telco space.
Steve
@sriramhere need to acknowledge it is a big transformation for their industry, not keep asking if we are there yet :)
Sriram Subramanian
@xsgordon agreed. and timing has played well there. Right when they are looking to refresh, OpenStack use cases gave confidence
Mark Collier
telecom is a trillion dollar industry that is facing a dramatically more competitive market. The need to move away from fixed function hardware to software on x86 is pressing. In fact, it can't come fast enough to get to 5G and support IoT.