Analyst data forecasts the market for Carrier Ethernet services will top
$50 billion in 2015, and cloud services are expected to reach $200
billion by 2018. Coupled with the continued steady growth of smartphones
and an anticipated 75 billion Internet-connected devices by 2020, wide
area network (WAN) infrastructure will be strained beyond its limits,
compelling the industry to develop new ways to manage communications and
data. Commenting on opening day of MEF GEN14, Vitesse
Semiconductor CTO Dr. Martin Nuss said that software-defined
networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) will be
crucial to ICT networks over the long-term, due to SDN/NFV’s combined
potential for automating both network infrastructure and connectivity
services.
With over 20 years of technical and management experience, Dr. Nuss is a
recognized industry expert in Ethernet technology. He serves on the
board of directors for the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry
(ATIS) and is a fellow of the Optical Society of America. Dr. Nuss
observed that one of the biggest opportunities lies in service
orchestration – automating creation, delivery and maintenance of
Ethernet connections and services – to the Cloud and between Clouds.
While MEF CE 2.0 service specifications have become industry standards
by which Ethernet services are defined and delivered, MEF’s Third
Network initiative will drive the industry towards a vastly simplified
model enabling end-to-end service and connectivity automation. Service
models and machine-programmable APIs mapping directly to MEF CE 2.0
services are the logical next step, enabling SDN control of MEF
services. Ethernet connectivity from customers and devices to Cloud
services can also easily be generalized to the NFV model, where network
function infrastructure distributed throughout the network is
interconnected to other elements and the customer using MEF service
concepts.
“Because compute resources and virtual machines generally need to
connect at Layer 2, or the Ethernet layer, using MEF connection concepts
to connect customers and devices to the Cloud to create
revenue-generating services makes complete sense,” added Martin Nuss,
CTO at Vitesse. “Automation of both network infrastructure and
connectivity will be essential, as the number of connected endpoints
proliferates well beyond what any human could handle. At Vitesse, our
tightly integrated turnkey silicon-plus-software solution already
enables this vision, supporting SDN-programmable APIs into MEF CE 2.0
service orchestration, and we are excited to help drive standardization
as part of the MEF Third Network initiative.”
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