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Re: Has virtualization become obsolete in 5G?
From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom com>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 10:26:35 +0200
On 4/Aug/20 18:05, adamv0025 () netconsultings com wrote:
Yes that's exactly it. Instead of a VDOM (or whatever is your FW vendor slicing mechanism) give each customer a FW "instance" (VM/Containerized -if there's such a thing already) and instantiate it on demand and with resources customer requested and enforce utility billing. Rinse and repeat for any other NF customer might need on your telco cloud (fancy name for a data-canter full of compute) As simple as that -problem is that all vendors haven't quite gotten up to speed with licensing models, we need an overall Gbps throughput pool licenses not per VM/Container Gbps pool.
We attempted this for a vCPE model based on CSR1000v. The options were to either give each customer their own VM, or share a single VM across all customers. The former was too resource intensive, while the latter suffered from an appropriate license billing model with Cisco. For me, vCPE's make plenty of sense because you can automatically impose IPv6 on all customers without them being bothered about what it is. Mark.
Current thread:
- Re: Has virtualization become obsolete in 5G?, (continued)
- Re: Has virtualization become obsolete in 5G? Etienne-Victor Depasquale (Aug 05)
- Re: Has virtualization become obsolete in 5G? Mark Tinka (Aug 06)
- Re: Has virtualization become obsolete in 5G? Etienne-Victor Depasquale (Aug 07)
- Re: Has virtualization become obsolete in 5G? Mark Tinka (Aug 07)
- Re: Has virtualization become obsolete in 5G? sronan (Aug 07)
- Re: Has virtualization become obsolete in 5G? Mark Tinka (Aug 07)
- Re: Has virtualization become obsolete in 5G? Mark Tinka (Aug 07)
- Re: Has virtualization become obsolete in 5G? Djamel Sadok (Aug 04)
- Re: Has virtualization become obsolete in 5G? Mark Tinka (Aug 04)
- RE: Has virtualization become obsolete in 5G? adamv0025 (Aug 04)
- Re: Has virtualization become obsolete in 5G? Mark Tinka (Aug 06)
- RE: Has virtualization become obsolete in 5G? adamv0025 (Aug 04)
- Re: Has virtualization become obsolete in 5G? Christopher Morrow (Aug 04)
- Re: Has virtualization become obsolete in 5G? Mike Hammett (Aug 02)