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Results are in: NFV set to hit mass adoption by 2021
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Results are in: NFV set to hit mass adoption by 2021
Report Summary
Seven years ago the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) released its initial NFV whitepaper. What followed some would say has been seven long years of (occasionally torturous) virtualized network development. In October Informa Tech conducted a survey of over 130 service providers; and it found that there is some light at the end of the tunnel. The survey data report will be released in the New Year to Ovum subscribers.
Some key findings from the report are that 20% of communications service providers (CSPs) surveyed expect to have made significant NFV deployments across their network by the end of 2019. This number is expected to triple to more than 60% of telcos by the end of 2021. As deployments rise so will CAPEX. Those already deploying NFV saw an increase of planned CAPEX budget in 2019 from 2018, and this can be expected to increase across the industry as deployments spread out. Interestingly, these figures are anticipated even as the acronym NFV loses favor with the industry and operators cry out for ‘cloud-native’ network functions.
For vendors operating in this space be ready to showcase your current successful deployments – the more the better! The survey highlighted a history of successful deployments as CSP’s number one reason to select an NFV vendor. They must also plan out and be able to articulate their migration path to fully cloud-native systems if they wish to achieve long term uptake and retention of key CSP clients.
Overall the report highlights that though the conversation on NFV is morphing to focus on fully cloud-native architectures, today’s VMs and VNFs will co-exist in CSP networks for the foreseeable future. This will be true not just for those operators not expecting to have made significant deployments by 2025 (roughly 10%), but also for those who have already deployed VNFs today.
If you would like to learn more about the report on the adoption of NFV or the survey please feel free to comment or drop me a line at chris.silberberg@ovum.com. We look forward to hearing your thoughts on the future of NFV and the migration to a cloudified network.
Author: Chris W Silberberg
Research Analyst |Service Provider Technology| Ovum
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