On 29/Nov/16 12:55, Alexander Harrowell wrote:
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.
I'd say it's reasonably common. We have a number of 3rd party companies running the LAN's of our enterprise customers, here in Africa. Mark.