NFV

NFV

The reality of the telco cloud

By Ray Le Maistre

Aug 28, 2020

Andrea Donà, Head of Network, Vodafone UK

  • How has the introduction of virtualization impacted Vodafone’s network in the past few years?
  • How important is the cloudification of the network to 5G?
  • What’s next in terms of NFV developments for Vodafone?

Network functions virtualisation (NFV) has been a term and a concept that has influenced network operator strategies for more than seven years, but what has it meant for service providers as they step into the 5G era? Andrea Donà, Head of Networks at Vodafone UK talks about the impact of NFV, what it has enabled at the operator, and why the impact that virtualisation and cloudification is having has only really just begun.

Filmed using the TelecomTV Smart Studio service, August 2020

 

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