SPs & Telcos are transforming their businesses driven by virtualization (NFV). Virtualization is enabling Cisco customers to expand into new markets while gaining efficiencies in their existing businesses. We expect 2017ā2018 to be the years of broader adoption of NFV driven by a growing ecosystem around VNF interoperability, multi-cloud, service performance, APIs, etc.
Cisco is partnering with top tier SP/Telco customers to help them be successful in their NFV journey. Having a common infrastructure to run all of their workloads (Telco and IT) is a fundamental desire that drives lower TCO. At the same time, a common infrastructure needs to be flexible yet robust to deploy a variety of services. We will share key customer experiences highlighting the need to fully understand some of the tradeoffs of operationalizing a highly secure, available, and performant cloud based on common infrastructure.