Bethany sees SDN/NFCV as the telco adoption of techniques that have been well and truly played out in the IT industry with the development of orchestration and virtualisation. Telcos have the opportunity now to partner with companies that can take advantage of that experience and apply it to the network. There’s no need to reinvent the wheel.

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Carriers face significant challenges around network convergence and integration, says Jeff Edlund, CTO Communications and Media Solutions at HP. For instance, how do you cost-optimise the business and ease the delivery of new services to customers, while at the same time moving from proprietary to standard hardware and infrastructure?
 

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With the big strategic telco trends now clearly identified as Cloud, Big Data, Analytics, Network Function Virtualisation and Software Defined Networks, IT companies like HP know that they're well placed to play a key role as the tectonic plates of IT and networking finally crunch together in a meaningful way. David Sliter, VP and GM of Communications, Media and Entertainment Solutions at HP tells Abe Nejad how HP can marry IT scale with its best of breed specialist products to deliver cost savings of up to 30 per cent.

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The codgers are back and grumbling. But there are exceptions. M2M modules in cars are probably a good idea. And against the odds US regulators may be growing teeth: traditionally the big incumbent telcos have been able to roam free and essentially do what they like, but one of them has been shown the naughty step. Will there be a naughty step too far taken at the ITU's big international regulations conference in Dubai? And finally, HP claims it was sold a pup when it stumped up billions to buy 'big data' specialist, Autonomy. Was it?

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