{"id":14808,"date":"2015-05-27T09:44:58","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T09:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=225841"},"modified":"2015-05-27T09:44:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T09:44:58","slug":"ericsson-cloud-lab-to-focus-on-nfv-sdn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/ericsson-cloud-lab-to-focus-on-nfv-sdn\/","title":{"rendered":"Ericsson cloud lab to focus on NFV, SDN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_204392\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/122\/files\/2014\/10\/Network-Expansion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-204392\" alt=\"Ericsson is opening up a lab to help coordinate SDN and NFV research among telcos\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/122\/files\/2014\/10\/Network-Expansion-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ericsson is opening up a lab to help coordinate SDN and NFV research among telcos<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ericsson has opened a lab in Italy which will coordinate research among telecoms operators on deploying software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualisation (NFV) in their datacentres.<\/p>\n<p>The company said the lab, which will be based in Rome but will also have an associated cloud platform for data sharing and collaboration, will help develop multi-vendor SDN and NFV solutions that primarily address the needs of telcos.<\/p>\n<p>Participating organisations will be able to link up to the cloud platform and share their results.<\/p>\n<p>Nunzio Mirtillo, head of Ericsson in the Mediterranean region said: \u201cCloud will enable the biggest evolution of the telecom business and this new lab is an example of Ericsson&#8217;s passion for driving innovations in Italy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs great ideas come from collaboration, operators can turn cloud-based approaches to their advantage and implement new architectures that provide network efficiency and shorter time to market for innovative services,\u201d Mirtillo added.<\/p>\n<p>The company said the lab is intended to help operators experiment with getting SDN and NFV technologies integrated into their existing infrastructure estate, which can be quite a challenge for most that aren\u2019t refreshing their hardware for SDN or NFV compliance quickly enough. As a result many have been forced to take the overlay approach.<\/p>\n<p>Ericsson is already working with a number of operators on SDN and NFV. Last year the company was tapped up by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/2014\/08\/19\/ericsson-to-help-telstra-introduce-sdn-nfv\/\">Telstra<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/2014\/11\/03\/att-ericsson-virtualise-ims-cscf-on-openstack\/\">AT&amp;T<\/a> to help virtualise key aspects of their networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ericsson has opened a lab in Italy which will coordinate research among telecoms operators on deploying software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualisation (NFV) in their datacentres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2642,2330,2142,1976,2074,1118,2197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-att","category-ericsson","category-networks","category-news-analysis","category-nfv","category-sdn","category-telstra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14809,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14808\/revisions\/14809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}