A shift towards network virtualization and software-defined networking is one of the telecom trends that Corning’s Director of Wireless R&D and Chief Technologist Shirish Nagaraj believes is most impacting the workforce landscape, particularly in the way that it changes how code is developed and written.
The basic idea behind network virtualization is to decouple software from hardware, and to run network functions, like a firewall or encryption, for instance, on virtual machines (VMs). As soon as the network functions are managed by a hypervisor, services originally installed on hardware can be performed on software.
