Cloud Band Concept

The introduction and development of Cloud-based concepts into the IT datacenter industry has been very rapid over recent years. In parallel, the associated ecosystem and business models have changed fundamentally.At the same time, IT Cloud economy-of-scale benefits and the overall value proposition derived from shared data centers resources and “pay-as-you-go” business models are also potentially valid for telecom networks.

However, in the telecom domain, network elements are traditionally assembled in a harmony way with many different equipment architectures and vendors right through the network. This network architecture has evolved by necessity, owing to carrier-grade requirements such as real-time performance and high availability.  

Virtualization promises freedom of deployment for various functions in an open, standardized environment. When introduced in a telecom context, the critical success factors are performance, latency, and standardized management interfaces.