A survey of 120 telecommunications providers found that 34% plan to procure best-of-breed components for their NFV infrastructure, management and orchestration, and virtualized network functions and do the integration themselves. Another 34% will take the same approach but use a systems integrator for integration. Reliability, security, and availability were viewed as the most important attributes of an NFV infrastructure platform.

1. Telco survey on NFV-I Platform
EXCERPT
Conducted on behalf of
Roz Roseboro, Senior Analyst

2. NFV-I Procurement Strategy
We will buy pre-tested and
validated solutions (NFVI +
VNFs + MANO +
Integration Services)
16%
We will procure best-of-
breed components for
NFVI, MANO and each NFV
use case (VNFs) and use a
third-party systems
integrator
34%
We will procure best-of-
breed components for
NFVI, MANO and each NFV
use case (VNFs) and do
the integration ourselves
34%
We have not decided on
our procurement strategy
16%
Source: Heavy Reading Service Provider Survey, October 2016, n=120

3. Importance of NFV-I Platform Attributes
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Reliability
Security
Availability
Performance
Near-zero
time failure
recovery
Manageability
Critical
Very important
Somewhat important
Marginal
Source: Heavy Reading Service Provider Survey, October 2016, n=120

4. Thank you!
Roz Roseboro
roseboro@heavyreading.com