The cloud has fundamentally changed the way organizations, including Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), provide and consume computing resources. Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is one of the principle technologies underlying cloud-computing platforms and is often discussed in terms of its technology and features, such as resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and on-demand self-service.
These discussions are appropriate since it is NFV that allows a service provider to rapidly and economically launch instances of network services to meet variable demand using Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) hardware, says, Steve Barefoot, senior product analyst, Interop Technologies.
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