Service Velocity
Dom Robinson · 2017
Service velocity enables service providers to offer the spectrum of sales, deployment, repair, upgrading and other requisite capabilities in a speedy manner. The idea is fairly straightforward: operators who anticipate where business will come from will be able to offer it more quickly. This chapter discusses Gen1, Gen2, and Gen3 virtualization. It also looks into some of the more familiar network applications, and then broadens into some applications that cross the line between the network and the pure application space. First are a couple of obvious ones: the domain naming service (DNS) used all the time by everyone. Second is internet protocol (IP). There are a couple of others too – MPLS is a way that IP can be deployed on various forms of fixed line networks. MPLS can be used by operators to designate priorities for traffic, so ensuring that low latency banking data can be shipped faster than a background software update, etc.