Radisys plants flag in NFV biz

Radisys has joined the SDN/NFV race, launching a combo of chassis and software targeting mobile operators. Available in six-slot, 640 Gbps throughput or 14-slot, 2 Tbps throughput versions, the company's T100 chassis can be filled with either its A2470 switch blade (with integrated packet classification and load balancing) or …

[Anonymous Coward]

Which part of NFV don't they get?

Let me see. Generic hardware? No. Virtualized function? No. Elastic scaling? No. What part of NFV exactly does the author think Radisys are going after?

Smells like a blade server system with a shiny NFV sticker on the front and not much else.

Don't get me wrong, Radisys gear is excellent, and they do know about high-performance data plane stuff (hence DPDK), but the description is a looooonnng way from NFV.

Come back and post when they offer their software on truly generic virtualized hardware. Along with orchestration. Then we'll talk NFV.

[wabbit02]

Re: Which part of NFV don't they get?

Radisys are an OEM provider selling the base hardware to be re-badge'd by various 3rd parties. The pitch here is "we can allow SDN and NFV in one hardware platform" which seems to be a bit of a "whitebox" play and help with transition between current and SDN/ NFV architectures.

So its more "come play NFV and SDN on our shiny platform".