Cloud in a cloud. Using ONAP in the Microsoft Azure public cloud yields rapid time to market and ease of scale Why, as we build the “Telco Cloud”, does the industry feel obliged to use traditional on-prem infrastructure? We are seeing a real-life use case where real-time orchestration and management, in the form of Amdocs’ ONAP-based SD-WAN/NFV Package, being delivered for production use by a CSP in the public cloud – specifically Microsoft Azure. Public cloud-based deployment has many potential advantages; it deploys quickly, scales easily and with minimal upfront investment, and also provides a testbed for public cloud technology such as Azure, which can be applied to other aspects of the telco cloud as well. Much more than SD-WAN – A dynamic library of services We also see evidence in this announcement that both Amdocs and SES view the long-term opportunity to be significantly broader than SD-WAN and a few initial NFVs – and this validates our prediction that the industry is really focused on developing a new “dynamic enterprise edge”. Azure Public Cloud moves toward the edge As various edges develop (network edge, mobile edge, enterprise edge), it will become increasingly feasible to dynamically instantiate – or host […]