NFV, Cloud, and SDN:Networking solutions from GENBAND and Intel move beyond simple virtualization

The evolutionary change of telecommunications networks towards all-IP mechanisms has begun to collapse the traditional boundaries between IT and telecommunications infrastructure. The IT data center has for years been the location for web-based services and applications. As the telecommunications environment becomes all-IP, more and more network functions will be available as pure software functions, deployable using existing IT-centric data center architectures. This is evidenced by the emergence of pure-IP communications networks based on IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) transported over IP Cable, Fiber, LTE, and the like.