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elizabethv
elizabethv
10/31/2016 6:39:48 AM
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Re: World NFV Market Growth
@DHagar - I think to some extent the written word is immune to such "fads." People tend to have more time to think about what they are going to write, and that time allows people to process their thoughts more compelete.

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freehe
freehe
10/29/2016 4:02:36 PM
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World NFV Market Growth by 2020
Chris Haddock provide some very insightful facts about the NFV market that hopefully other NFV companies will comprehend.

I agree with him that operators do need to strategize in how they choose to virtualize the various functions in their networks. This may require re-training employees or hiring specially skilled consultants.

Companies should consider capacity management and future growth even when outsourcing NFV or other services. What is the strategic plan for the outsourcing company in the next 3-5 years, are there opportunities for partnerships, forums or collaborations, how can the company remain competitive if it outsources services, etc.

As Haddock said, "...invest in a selection of best-in-class software building blocks, using a number of smaller components, to make best use of the computing resources available to them," "Used in this manner, NFV can empower operators to evolve their networks and services at their own pace, ahead of and in response to local competition."

This seems like a no brainer but this concept gets lost as it travel up the management ladder.

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freehe
freehe
10/29/2016 3:57:26 PM
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Re: World NFV Market Growth
@JohnBarnes, thanks for that interesting insight on the market. You always provide awesome perspectives.

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DHagar
DHagar
10/28/2016 3:36:42 PM
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Re: World NFV Market Growth
@JohnBarnes, fascinating!  That truly is the key to the future.

Some will stay wedded to the past, but the future truly will open up a different world - a potential renaissance if you will.

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JohnBarnes
JohnBarnes
10/28/2016 3:02:38 PM
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Re: World NFV Market Growth
DHagar,

"Science progresses by funerals."  Often attributed to Thomas Kuhn, though he repudiated the idea (further research showed that science is one of the few places where people actually change their minds).

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DHagar
DHagar
10/28/2016 2:50:06 PM
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Re: World NFV Market Growth
@JohnBarnes, I could not agree more with your futuristic view of metrics (statistics, math, etc.).  I see it everywhere and it will create an entirely new context for how we view things. 

I am working with some projects with cognitive computing, which adopts the AI and machine learning to problem solving.  You can see the metrics as core knowledge built in.

I am with you on the future with education and I would be in the class with you.  The Human Intelligence needs to keep pace with the Artificial Intelligence - then technology will augment, rather than replace humans.

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DHagar
DHagar
10/28/2016 2:45:52 PM
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Re: World NFV Market Growth
@JohnBarnes, I like your econometric thoughts - that fits.  And your scenario I believe is quite accurate.  Eventually, the dinosaurs will lose grip and retire or die off.  That model works.

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JohnBarnes
JohnBarnes
10/28/2016 2:35:56 PM
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Re: World NFV Market Growth
DHagar,

I used, many years ago, to think of metrics as a nuisance field, that stuff you had to know before you did interesting research. Nowadays I think it's an extraordinarily underdeveloped field (though developing very fast) and is probably one of the major hidden drags on the deployment of Big Data. I think if I were 25 or 30 and knew about what I know now, I'd seriously be looking at one of the doctoral programs in metrics (or at a self-designed PhD in it), because I would bet that by 2050 it will be a required subject business, engineering, policy studies, finance, accounting, and probably education, and most research operations will have an on-staff metrician.

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JohnBarnes
JohnBarnes
10/28/2016 2:31:13 PM
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Re: World NFV Market Growth
Adi, DHagar,

continuing with my econometric thoughts, I'm really thinking the model for NFV should be the logistic curve, that forward-leaning-S-shaped one that is so common with really new really better tech. In which case in about ten or twenty years we'll be publishing articles saying "Last few holdouts on NFV remain stubborn," and "We're going to have to wait for the last few old guys to die or retire, say NFV vendors."

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DHagar
DHagar
10/28/2016 1:53:56 PM
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Re: World NFV Market Growth
@Adi, regarding expectations for higher growth rate - that's good news that NFV is high on operators' priority list.  Maybe the numbers are just lagging in terms of translating those priorities into actual purchases.  I would think that the NFV offers a better investment in the future and the adoption is in both short-term and long-term plans, rather than investing in the lesser alternative solutions.

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