This is a really interesting thread; my telco clients are mad keen on various solutions of this general form. As a rule they would love to consolidate their various SME and enterprise CPEs down to a single x86 box that gets configured with VNFs from a central VIM or container pool. But they'd also love to sell you all your networking out of that box - and one of the big questions I have is just how many companies would accept "LAN as a Service". It may be even more difficult for SMEs as the cost of going back on the deal is higher the less in-house capability you have. On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 8:36 AM, Denis Fondras <xxnog@ledeuns.net> wrote:
On 28/Nov/16 19:53, Kasper Adel wrote:
Hi,
Vendor X wants you to run their VNF (Router, Firewall or Whatever) and they refuse to give you root access, or any means necessary to do 'maintenance' kind of work, whether its applying security updates, or any other similar type of task that is needed for you to integrate the Linux VM into your IT eco-system.
Would this be an acceptable offering in today's IT from different type of Enterprises (Minux the Googles, Facebooks...etc) ?
As long as the vendor will be held liable for ANY (and I mean it) problem that could happen on my infrastructure.