What is CORD?
One of the most predominant use cases we see of NFV and SDN adoption is CORD, Central office Re-Architected as a Datacenter. It combines NFV, SDN, and the elasticity of commodity clouds to bring datacenter economics and cloud agility to the Telco Central Office. CORD lets the operator manage their Central Offices using declarative modeling languages for agile, real-time configuration of new customer services. Major service providers like AT&T, SK Telecom, Verizon, China Unicom and NTT Communications are already supporting CORD. Before we get deeper into CORD, let's make sure we are all on the same page regarding what is a Telco Central Office. COs are: It is a service provider's gateway to its customers. There are dozens of thousands of COs. CO provides a great vantage point for service providers Allowing enablement of new services One CO has three main markets (residential, mobile and enterprise) and each may support 10K+ Residential subscribers 10K+ Mob