Alcatel-Lucent on Monday announced its association Korean telecom service provider KT to drive the adoption of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)-based infrastructure.

KT is planning its Giga Network and NFV will be a key foundation for developing a new architecture to increase efficiency, lower costs and increase cloud products.

“KT is happy to collaborate on our NFV proof of concept with Alcatel-Lucent who has been delivering open and integrated NFV and SDN products. The tie up will help us in creating converged services for Gigatopia era and develop new revenue generation models,” said HongBeom Jeon, head of Technology Infra Laboratory Center, KT.

Dell’Oro Group recently said the amount of mobile Capex (capital spending) to support incremental mobile data usage has declined more than 50 percent per year since the smartphone boom started.

The report said fiber and LTE coverage will drive telecom equipment investments in 2H14 and 2015.  The proportion of Capex that will be allocated to new technology enablers and network topologies including NFV and small cells is expected to be negligible over the next six quarters.

Meanwhile, the Broadband Forum collaborated with the European Telecommunications Standards Institute’s (ETSI) Industry Specification Group for Network Functions Virtualization (NFVISG) after agreeing a formal liaison relationship last year.

NFV grew out of carriers’ need to adopt cloud, open platforms and interfaces for enhanced service delivery in their networks, which would reduce complexity, enhance scalability and speed time to market.

Baburajan K
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