Cloud Computing: Broadcom, Huawei to Showcase NFV Solutions at Mobile World Congress
February 23, 2014
Grazed from eWeek. Author: Jeffrey Burt.
Broadcom and Huawei Technologies will be among the growing number of vendors bringing network-function virtualization offerings to the Mobile World Congress 2014 show this week. Broadcom will demonstrate a new platform designed to enable system makers and third-party vendors to create virtualized network function applications that can migrate across multiple system-on-a-chip (SoC) platforms, bringing greater flexibility and cost-effectiveness to network operators and service providers who are navigating an increasingly cloud-based environment.
For their part, Huawei officials at the show will talk about its Cloud Edge solution for deploying network-function virtualization (NFV) capabilities on mobile broadband networks…
NFV, a close relative of software-defined networks (SDNs), will be in the spotlight during Mobile World Congress, which runs in Barcelona, Spain, started Feb. 24. Alcatel-Lucent, Dell, Red Hat, Radisys, IneoQuest and others will be showing off NFV solutions or talking about their efforts in the space. In addition, Hewlett-Packard and Intel subsidiary Wind River announced this month that the two companies are working together to create carrier-grade servers that can help telecoms handle the demands from NFV and the Internet of things…
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