Telcos look to jump start NFVi as they set their sights on a cloud native future

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Telcos look to jump start NFVi as they set their sights on a cloud native f
First the CSPs, then the vendors and associations

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In May we broke the news of the formation of the Common NFVi Telco Taskforce – a group of ten CSPs working within the Linux Foundation Networking (LFN) to create a common NFVi framework, building on preliminary studies done at the GSMA (and which was formally ratified last week).
Then we heard news about efforts from the ETSI NFV industry standards group (NFV ISG) to increase focus on NFVi with its forthcoming Release 4 to support lightweight virtualization technologies and optimisation methods to couple VNFs. This is in addition to new features for Release 3 that it hopes will better align the NFV specification with the demands coming out of 3GPP for future 5G standards releases.
The Common NFVi Telco Taskforce is something of a new approach to cross-industry collaboration, with its roots in the GSMA but its growth firmly at LFN.
In the space of a couple of months, the Taskforce has increased its CSP numbers to around 16 or so, most of them Tier One operators.
“Operators see huge benefits of moving from physical networks to virtualised and ultimately to completely cloud native infrastructure,” David Hutton, Head of Networks at the GSMA, told TelecomTV during a briefing call.
“The big Tier One operators, who are a lot further along that journey compared to others, are still finding it quite difficult to try and integrate all the new infrastructure into their network.
So for the view that we have – and this is driven by our operators and their requirements – is to try and simplify this process and do some profiling of what that infrastructure would actually look like.”
He added: “I think the hard work and efforts that we’re doing now with our major operator support is really going to benefit the industry and the ecosystem as a whole.”
“The infrastructure layer is not going to be the place where we as operators differentiate ourselves,” said Mark Cottrell, AVP Domain 2.0 and Cloud at AT&T and founding member of the Taskforce

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