For a while I thought to write about an OpenStack cheat sheet showing OpenStack components, so you can refer to it as an easy to use handy reference. If you are using NFV, you are using OpenStack for sure. OpenStack sits at the VIM layer inside NFV MANO and is the most important piece to […]
What is Kubernetes ? and how is kubernetes architecture ? To start with, Kubernetes, also known as “K8s” is an open source container orchestration platform that automates the deployment, management, load balancing, and scaling of container based applications ( also called containerized applications). Secondly, Kubernetes is a leader in container orchestration as this survey shows. In fact, […]
What is Cloud Native ? Answering this question is important as everyone talks about Cloud Native but very few are aware of all the attributes of Cloud Native applications and architecture. For example, many associate cloud native to the use of the containers only. which is not correct. As there are other attributes that also […]
After understanding MEC architecture in my last blog, it is logical to to see the action of MEC in NFV architecture ! However, here is a question, why you need a separate MEC architecture ? Why not re-use NFV architecture. When NFV can run itself any application, isn’t MEC one of the applications? I got […]
Welcome to the guide to MEC Architecture ! MEC or Multi-access Edge computing will draw the next wave of investments by Mobile operators who want to take advantage of low latency services that 5G promises. Which means running services closer to the consumers ( that is close to radio sites). This opens a new range […]
I attended TechField day event( February 12 to 14th, 2020) in Silicon Valley US as one of the analysts, where we attended some very informative presentations from the participating networking vendors Among those presentations, the one about CloudGenix’s SD-WAN, particularly, caught my attention, so I thought to write about it. (Please see full disclaimer at […]
This guest blog on MEF-70 is written by Anuradha Udunuwara – My friend and a Subject Matter Expert for Carrier Ethernet, SDN, NFV, and SD-WAN. …………………………………………………….. You have probably heard a lot about Software-Defined WAN or SD-WAN. So, you may know that It falls within the larger scope of SDx and Software-Defined anything ( if […]
The terms SD-WAN ( Software-Defined WAN), uCPE ( Universal Customer Premises Equipment) and vCPE ( Virtual CPE) are used a lot these days, yet there is very little information on what are the differences and similarities between them i.e what is SD-WAN vs uCPE vs vCPE So it is not uncommon that a vendor may […]