To improve profitability, time to market and performance, service providers and their enterprise customers want proven interoperability between disparate vendors’ virtualization products, especially as these environments become more pervasive and sophisticated.
Tier 1 service providers such as AT&T Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and Deutsche Telekom AG, as well as their small counterparts, are investing heavily in virtualization. By 2020, AT&T expects 75% of its network functions will be virtualized compared with 30% today, says Toby Ford, assistant vice president, Cloud Technology, Strategy & Planning at AT&T.
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