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New market brief describes why service providers struggle with NFV.

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TELECOMWORLDWIRE-October 28, 2019-New market brief describes why service providers struggle with NFV

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Service providers want the technological flexibility, business agility and savings that Network Function Virtualization (NFV) promises, but they're frustrated by its implementation complexity and cost and the fact that it requires additional work on top of all their other projects and initiatives, the company said.

A new market brief from iconectiv[R], NFV information as a service making virtualization practical, simple and telco-grade, explores the top four reasons why those roadblocks exist (particularly around the onboarding of Virtual Network Functions (VNF) and Cloud Native Functions (CNF) and identifies how service providers can overcome them to begin leveraging all of NFV's benefits.

Some analysts describe NFV as "The Wild West." The brief explains why that's the case--and how ETSI, GSMA and MEF standards activities should be harmonized with open source initiatives such as Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) and Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV). One example of recent activity to address onboarding is the formation of the Common NFVI Telco Task Force (CNTT) to address variances and onboarding-related testing and certification.

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