NFV/SDN Reality Check: NFV TCO deployment analysis – Episode 40

On this week’s NFV/SDN Reality Check, we spoke with Angela Whiteford, VP of marketing and product management at Affirmed Networks, which put out its own report on the TCO topic that found adopting a virtualized evolved packet core solution can reduced capital expense by 69% and operating expense by 67% on average, and mobile operators were able to deploy a virtualized network much more quickly (in as little as six months) than they were with traditional networks (15 months on average) resulting in quicker time to market and time to revenue.

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