The telecommunication market’s move towards virtualization platforms continues to gain steam amongst its largest players, though smaller carriers remain wary at this point on the benefits of technologies like software-defined networking and network functions virtualization.
During a “CTO” panel at this week’s Competitive Carriers Association Mobile Carriers Show, network executives from the likes of Sprint and C Spire explained the immaturity of SDN and NFV at this point is keeping them from moving more aggressively towards those software-based platforms.
