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Rethinking Talent and Culture to Lay the Foundation for 5G
In our 5G eBook, we talked about one of the biggest barriers that Communications Service Providers (CSPs) face in transitioning to a 5G world: the huge talent and culture gap between traditional network teams, who are used to doing things a certain way, and the world...
Open Standards and Open Source: Feeding the Virtuous Circle
In our eBook on “overlooked factors in 5G rollouts”, one major item we cited was the importance of open source software. We offered a high-level overview: why service providers (SPs) are turning to open source projects, wherein the network stack those projects can...
Open Source SDN Control: To DIY or NOT to DIY
In the world of networking, the landscape for Software-Defined Controllers is changing. The industry is moving away from pre-integrated hardware/software solutions with proprietary control and data plane-integrated solutions to open, standards-based, disaggregated...
Inside OpenDaylight: Unveiling Common Misconceptions
As a TSC member and long-time committer, I’ve fielded many misconceptions from throughout the ecosystem about OpenDaylight. In this blog, I’ll address a few of them to help the ecosystem understand what OpenDaylight is and what it is not. OpenDaylight IS a Software...
Unifying Orchestration of 5G Networks and Services
In our 5G eBook, we talked about the critical need for unified orchestration in communication service provider (CSP) networks. To review: 5G services will make CSP networks even more complex than they are now while raising customer expectations. The only way to deal...
Behind the Closed 5G Doors: The Reality of Physical Legacy Resources in 5G Environments
Since our inception, Lumina Networks has been automating heterogeneous networks. It’s rare that you can find a company that can cross over from the virtualized world to the MPLS world seamlessly, which I suppose makes us a rare case. Add to that our leadership in the...
