Has virtualization become obsolete in 5G?

Fri Aug 7 05:29:49 UTC 2020

On 6/Aug/20 21:05, Christopher Morrow wrote:

> Isn't this just, really:
>   1) some network gear with SDN bits that live on the next-rack over
> servers/kubes
>   2) services (microservices!) that do the SDN functions AND NFV
> functions AND billing
>       (extending IMS to the edge etc)

I can already see how we are going to spend the next 10 years defining
this :-)...

> the discussion (I think) got conflated here...
> there's: "network equipment" and "microservices equipment" (service equipment?)
>
> and really 'I need a fast, cheap network device I can dynamically program for
>  things which don't really smell like 'DFZ size LPM routing"'
>
> is just code for: "sdn control the switch, sending traffic either at
> 'default' or based
> on 'service data' some microservice architecture of NFV things.

I think we've just given vendors job security for another decade, hehe.

> 5g folk seem to have lots of good marketing, and reasons to sell complexity
> to their carrier 'partners' (captive prisoners? maybe that's too pejorative :) )

Amen!

Mark.