Blog posts tagged
"NFV"

34 posts


Canonical
3 October 2016

Big software has arrived

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It’s time for IT to let software do more of the work The world of business technology is under tremendous pressure and most organizations are ill-equipped to deal with the challenges and opportunities that are arising. Software as a Service, big data, cloud, scale-out, containers and microservices are not just...

Canonical
3 October 2016


Canonical
13 July 2016

Etisalat partners with Canonical to Deploy NFV Telco Infrastructure

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Etisalat, the Middle East’s leading telecoms provider announced today (download PDF) that it has built and launched its first live Network Function Virtualization telco cloud in Abu Dhabi. The NFV-based telco infrastructure has been built with Quanta servers, Arista switches and Canonical’s Ubuntu OpenStack, a...

Canonical
13 July 2016


Canonical
15 June 2016

Special report: Low latency and real-time kernels for telco and NFV

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The kernel is the fundamental core of a computer operating system. It is the first program to load, and it manages all core functions of the computer. With the expanding role of the Linux kernel in systems today, Canonical is often asked to provide leadership and support for kernel offerings for many purposes. Recently,...

Canonical
15 June 2016


eBook: CTO’s guide to SDN, NFV & VNF

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  Networking and communications standards and methodologies are undergoing the greatest transition since the migration from analogue to digital. The shift is from function-specific, proprietary devices to software-enabled commodity hardware. Why is the transition happening and why is it important? Read this eBook to:...


Christian Ehrhardt
5 May 2016

The new simplicity to consume DPDK

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DPDK is a fast moving project comprised of a set of libraries and drivers for fast packet processing. It utilizes polling threads, huge pages, numa locality and multi core processing to achieve low latencies and a high packet processing rate. Up until recently most guides to consume or experiment with DPDK looked like...

Christian Ehrhardt
5 May 2016


Canonical
26 February 2016

Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 4 Recap

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Software Defined LTE 5G Radio demo at the Ubuntu booth At an event the size of Mobile World Congress, the last day is filled with the hurried rush to get everything in that you might have missed. The major topics of the day were startups and upstarts, and upcoming mobile protocols standards and implementations. There

Canonical
26 February 2016


Canonical
25 February 2016

Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 3 Recap

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Ubuntu OpenStack running SDN, VNFs and virtualised customer premise equipment (vCPE) The third day of Mobile World Congress was an demonstration in what’s going to be the ‘new normal’. Well, maybe not normal, but it gave us a glimpse into how virtualised network functions (VNFs), industrial IoT, and over-the-top (OTT)...

Canonical
25 February 2016


Canonical
24 February 2016

Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 2 Recap

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Day 2 of Mobile World Congress was awesome. The overarching theme of the day was again focused on NFV (Network Functions Virtualisation). But before we get to that, I’m excited to announce that Canonical received a Best of Show award from Trusted Reviews for the BQ Aquaris M10 Ubuntu Tablet. A huge crowd gathered to

Canonical
24 February 2016


Canonical
23 February 2016

Mobile World Congress 2016, Day 1 Recap

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Bhaskar Gorti, President, Applications and Analytics at Nokia discusses Service Modeling and NFV deploymentThis is my first Mobile World Congress (MWC), and I have to say, the event is truly huge. Canonical is here demonstrating converged mobile/desktop technology, IoT drones and robots, top of rack switch integration...

Canonical
23 February 2016


John Zannos
22 February 2016

Canonical’s VNF PIL for NFV scale out architectures

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Co-authored by Nic Lemieux, Artur Tyloch and John Zannos The promise of Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is to supply Service Providers a way to create and deliver new services faster. With this promise comes new complexity. Earlier today at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Canonical announced the first VNF...

John Zannos
22 February 2016


James Donner
26 January 2016

Telco Demos With Juju: Intro

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In this blog series, we’ll be running through presentations featured during the Dangerous Demos session at TADsummit to show you how the next great innovations in telecom applications are only a click away with Juju. Stay tuned for more stories over the next few weeks as we approach Mobile World Congress. From big data to web

James Donner
26 January 2016


Canonical
2 December 2015

6WIND Partners with Canonical to Accelerate Ubuntu Cloud Networking

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6WIND to Integrate Virtual Accelerator with Juju 6WIND, a high-performance networking software company, today announced it will work with Canonical to help customers accelerate cloud networking on Ubuntu. 6WIND Virtual Accelerator™ has been validated on Canonical’s Ubuntu platform and both companies are working together...

Canonical
2 December 2015


James Donner
3 August 2015

NFV with Juniper OpenContrail and Ubuntu OpenStack: ODS Vancouver

Videos Cloud and server

 Arguably, the pressure on carriers to find new and innovative ways to develop and deliver new, sticky services has never been greater. Wannabe service providers such as Google, Amazon and Netflix, are finding ever more nimble ways to design and launch innovative new services. It’s their ability to deploy thousands of...

James Donner
3 August 2015


Artur Tyloch
23 July 2015

Juju for Telcos and Service Providers Pt. 2

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In the first blog of this series I introduced Juju and how it maps to the ETSI NFV architecture at the highest level. Now I’ll dig deeper into this relationship to see how it can be leveraged by telcos and service providers. So lets dive in… Juju is a neutral VNF modelling system Juju has

Artur Tyloch
23 July 2015