Datavision has been in the news quite a bit this year! Our COO Mark Abolafia has been busy discussing everything from our latest SD-WAN partnerships to SDN/NFV/edge computing adoption to ONAP. (Read about our involvement with ONAP here.)
Mark spoke with Capacity’s Alan Burkitt-Gray at Metro Connect in January about Datavision’s recent partnerships with Silver Peak and 128 Technology. Datavision started 2018 off strong with two announcements about partnerships that will “enable carriers to move more quickly into the software defined wide area networks (SD-WAN) market,” as Alan’s article states.
Joining other experts, Mark contributed his thoughts to Kevin Casey’s recent roundup article titled “What’s next in IT automation: 6 trends to watch.” He discussed tools such as Ansible, which allows you to create ‘a specific playbook for a set of actions and input different variables such as addresses, etc., to automate long chains of process that were previously subject to human touch and longer lead times.’
JSA TV (Meet Datavision & a Virtual CEO Roundtable on New Year Technology & Its Impact on Networks)
Take a look at both of these videos to learn more about network virtualization, edge computing, 5G, IoT, security and other industry trends. A couple of key quotes:
- “Every major telco has adopted different forms of software-defined networking or network functions virtualization… There’s a lot of leadership out there already in SDN/NFV. Operationalizing it has been a great challenge because you now have to graft all this into your existing BSS/OSS systems, but the other piece of it is how do you actually provide services at the edge or on the customer prem.” More here.
- “Fiber densification has been a hot topic and builds continue. I believe that SD-WAN will continue to pervade the enterprise environment, as well as into the service provider environment… Edge computing will continue to be looked at, deployed, tuned and worked more and more into folks’ day to day networking activities… The other trend I think will continue to accelerate this year is serverless computing and the use of containerization.” More here.
Rob Powell takes an in-depth look at Datavision’s origin story, current work and industry staffing concerns, as well as SDN, NFV, edge computing and more in this Q&Awith Mark. Automation technologies such as SDN and NFV are ‘still at the beginning of the knee of the curve,’ Mark told Rob. ‘This technology has plenty of room to run, because you’re going to see every network reengineered to perform all this advanced functionality.’
