Mobile operators are looking to benefit from the operational and capital cost savings that virtualization has brought to the enterprise world. Network functions virtualization (NFV) promises the ...

San Jose, CA Even in a currently slow networking market, innovative designs and critical decisions continue apace, as system builders prepare for the inevitable upturn. These decisions generally ...

Every telecom system is bursting with information about subscribers, services and devices—not to mention the telco's network equipment and operational status. This data is both sensitive and necessary ...

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As the networking industry is being transformed by the next-generation virtualization approach called software-defined networking (SDN), the complementary architectural concept of network functions ...

Getting started on designing a network is a task of formidable proportions, but all the more so if you are looking to build a secure IT network. Often, IT system administrators are not fully familiar ...

Listen carefully. The top level of the OSI Reference Model and the IETF protocol stack is the application layer. The application layer, however, doesn’t do applications. It provides services such as ...