Verizon Open Source White Box thoughts
Verizon Open Source White Box thoughts Shawn Hakl, Verizon’s vice president of new products and innovation, announced on the May 2017 NFV world congress the launch of Verizon's Open Source White Box solution that will run services from multiple vendors. On his own words "Customers differentiate between white box and gray box solutions. We’ve firmly seen customers are looking for standard off-the-shelf hardware, and they are willing to wait for this,” he said. “They perceive their risk to be really low…The people who have that are going to clean up.” This is quite a significant change on the traditional vendor approach of providing the hardware for virtual customer premises equipment (vCPE), network operating system (for example JunOS or CiscoOS), and the orchestration and provisioning system (For example, Netact). The benefits for the end customers are obvious, you don't require a big infrastructure investment as commodity 8086 hardware will always be cheaper th...