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Why it’s time to get serious about NFV
The direction should be set by open-source projects like Open Source MANO and ONAP for a future of “horizontal” deployments, says Whitestack’s Gianpietro Lavado. Over

Whitestack awarded ETSI OSM Outstanding Technical Contributor
During the last ETSI OSM plenary, our Gianpietro Lavado was awarded “Outstanding Technical Contributor” for his contributions during OSM Release FOUR. The Open Source Mano project is

Network Function Virtualization test results: Management and Orchestration solutions
Whitestack’s Gianpietro Lavado reports that MANO solutions also passed recent tests by global experts. In the first post of this series, I shared a short

Standards tests show that network functions virtualization has VIM
Some 95 percent of the 189 interoperability test sessions were successful, reports Gianpietro Lavado, a network solutions architect at Whitestack. In the first post of

Getting Network Function Virtualization ready for prime time: Inside the standards tests
Whitestack’s Gianpietro Lavado reports on the latest series of tests held by global experts. Network Function Virtualization (NFV) aims to virtualize over generic servers the