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Higher Education + Technology = ACUTA
Group e ort reduces development costs for “With OPNFV [Open Platform for NFV],
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suppliers as participants gain the experience
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and expertise of a crowd-sourced approach.
components and hardware in a baseline As a CIO, it is important for
• Professional networking at its best
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is can impact investment strategy, shi ing it con guration, add our use-case-speci c and/ me to be a part of a group of happens at the face-to-face events and via the listserv/community. We provide opportunities to connect o
and from a company owning a complete platform to or proprietary components, validate that they’re people who strive to con nually with people who can help you succeed.
t the concentrating e orts on the most important areas all interoperable and share insights and results evolve as knowledgeable technology professionals.
• High-quality education features presenters at seminars and
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for its customers and use cases.
of our testing with the rest of the industry,” I know of no be er organiza on conferences who are experts in the eld.
Open source also enables faster time to Don Clarke, Principal Architect, CableLabs, to be a part of than ACUTA.
• Valuable publications bring critical information to you in a timely,
yees market, streamlining or eliminating many steps commented in a recent research report on how Keith Fowlkes Director of Informaon Technology pro-active way.
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advantages of virtualization – getting new, • Professional development opportunities abound at ACUTA,
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di erentiating their o ers.
Open source also enables faster time your career.
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functionality on top of that foundation as a way
to di erentiate their products or better meet
unique internal needs. ese add-ons represent
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both a problem and an opportunity. For example, ONICS DOES IT ALL!
the add-ons are opportunities for suppliers to
compete on something other than price, but they
risk undermining interoperability with dozens of
semi-compatible forked versions of the open-
source code.
ird, open source can increase network
security by allowing more people to scrutinize
the underlying code. Previously telecom
networks have relied partly on ‘security by
obscurity’– using vendor-speci c code running
on purpose-built hardware, which few people WE BUY
understood well enough to tamper with.
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Making open-source code public might sound YOUR EXCESS
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counterintuitive regarding better security, but
it can reduce risks. For example, a network
operator or enterprise no longer depends on a
single vendor’s diligence. Instead, more eyeballs
increase the likelihood of identifying and xing
aws before hackers nd them.
“Most people who have looked at the issue –
and this is across any open-source project – have
concluded that open source is inherently more
secure than proprietary,” says Neela Jacques,
Executive Director, OpenDaylight. “Look at
Linux versus Windows.”
Fourth, Ken Dilbeck, Vice President of
Collaborative R&D, TM Forum, points to a
cultural shi among so ware developers that
is furthering the acceptance of open-source
solutions. “Engineers going through college
participate in open-source environments and TRAINING
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it becomes an innate part of their culture. ey
look to open source rst and then do other
things. As they become the backbone of our
development organizations, they are bringing
that culture with them.”
He concludes, “ e pace of change is
increasing because the network is becoming
so ware-based. You don’t have to wait for the
silicon to get cut; you don’t have to wait for new
hardware. All you have to do is write better
code.”
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