Maravedis Blogs

Small Cell Forum and ETSI join forces on NFV

by Caroline Gabriel, Research Director The two industry bodies agree joint activities in small cell virtualization, with project to define operator requirements The Small Cell Forum recently announced that the...

Alliances proliferate on the road to '5G'

by Caroline Gabriel, Research Director   There are some '5G' discussions and claims which are completely legitimate to have in 2015, especially if next generation networks really are to start...

Cellwize brings virtualization to SON

Self-optimizing networks start-up launches elastic-SON, which supports NFV and cloud-based management By Caroline Gabriel Two of the key components of the emerging mobile network will be SON (self-optimizing network) and...

Docomo will deploy commercial NFV in 2016

Completes first proof of concept trials of virtual EPC, working with NEC, Cisco and ALU By Caroline Gabriel Few technology platforms have evolved as quickly as NFV (Network Functions Virtualization),...

Ericsson becomes a software company, driven by NFV

By Caroline Gabriel, Research Director, Maravedis-Rethink Virtualization and software-defined networking (SDN) have been a significant shock to the system for major wireless infrastructure vendors. They give carriers the opportunity to...