Guest Blog Submitted by Filippo Galimberti, Sr. Marketing Manager SP

The industry has been discussing about Virtualization for a quite a while. The adoption is not picking-up as expected. Why? One of the main reasons is too much efforts are still spent on designing and testing a NFV Infrastructure meeting quality and performance requirements. The good news is, we have a solution for you.

Simplify Virtualization, Encourage Innovation, Move faster to NFV by leveraging a ready to go infrastructure

The real advantage of Virtualization for Service Providers comes from the creation of new services faster and more adapted to respond your customer needs. The NFV Infrastructure in the datacentre should be highly resilient and enable you driving innovation. At the same time it needs to be ready to power the new virtualized service offer at scale.

During the SDN World Congress in The Hague you'll be able to find the answer:

Cisco and Intel NFV Quick Start Initiative creates a unique opportunity for you to access our lab locations worldwide to help speed the test and adoption of your VNFs solutions. Providers can now benefit from a best of breed environment to realize their rapid innovation, achieving the new business models promised by the transformation toward virtualization. The chance to reduce the time for trials and proofs of concept tests from weeks to days is a key to your success.

The potential of virtualization is huge and it's now! Now is the time to focus on delivering on customers' expectations building on a solid NFV Infrastructure.

If you are attending the SDN World Congress in The Hague, stop by our booth and see the solution first hand. You also find more information at www.cisco.com/go/nfvi

See you in the Hague!