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See the video of how Lanner, Intel, Enea and Ciena talk about how to enable the multi-vendor NFV solutions that will accelerate your time-to-market deployment for new services.

uCPE (Universal Customer Premises Equipment) is currently considered as the most dynamic use cases of NFV (Network Function Virtualization), largely or partially due to the growth of MSP (Managed Service Provider) and MSSP (Managed Security Service Providers). The growing reliance on MSP and MSSP indicates the enterprise IT has recently shifted its focus from a CAPEX (Capital Expenditure) approach to an OPEX (Operating Expenses) oriented budgeting.

Lanner’s keynote speech at NFV World Congress 2017 by Sven Freudenfeld, Global Business Development Manager of Lanner Telecom Applications BU.

The 5th Generation mobile networks, known as 5G, are without doubt one of the most discussed technological trends and comes with new telecommunication standards beyond the currently adopted 4G. Though the standards has not officially been coined, 5G has drawn tremendous attention with the promises of higher transfer speed, wider bandwidth, better reliability, lower power consumption and much lower latency, to encourage the smoother device-to-device and IoT communications.

NFV has dramatically changed the perspective of how network infrastructure is established. The emphasis is the virtualization of network functions on carrier-grade appliances. While communication service providers worldwide are engaging in the transition to SDN and NFV, Virtual CPE (customer premise equipments) is one of the fastest growing use cases among all the real on-site enterprise applications. According to recent survey by iHS Markit 2016, the business opportunity of vCPE is forecasted to go beyond $1.5 billion worldwide by 2020 as service providers will leverage the cost benefits of vCPE to build their SDN and NFV applications.

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has become an inevitable trend since European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI) introduced it in 2012. It is a new network architecture concept that uses IT virtualization technologies to decouple network functions, such as router, firewall, network address transition (NAT), and domain name service (DNS), from proprietary hardware appliances so that they can run as software on standard servers, switches, and storages. NFV aims to help communication service providers (CSPs) to not only reduce costs but also to enable faster and more flexible service delivery. According to a survey1 , 94 percent of the CSP operators had NFV strategy plans in place.

As IoT (Internet of Things) is deployed in almost every field, limitations are encountered due to the excessive amount of data generated. It has become inevitable that the centralized cloud computing architecture is faced with limitations in bandwidth, data process, storage, latency, and analytics. To bridge the cloud and edge, the distributed approach called “fog computing” is introduced between the cloud and where the data is generated.

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