On 04/19/2017 03:03 PM, Neil Cherry wrote:
I forgot to address this part. They are still "physical servers"...just SOMEONE ELSE'S.
Technically they're virtual (on physical that can be swapped dynamically). That can present some interesting challenges unto itself.
...and technically they're physical servers underneath. (I don't run much of anything on bare metal either, other than hypervisors!)
Very much so, there is no virtual without the physical but many of the customers now purchase the virtual and it doesn't live where they think it lives. Which is now basically any data center in the world.
BTW, much of the LTE network is now virtual (functionality has shifted out of having specific device, when general will do). Still not possible to make antenna or transport vitual (though you can make the upper layers virtual).
Overall I like the idea of virtual, but I bet the regulatory side is a nightmare.
Yes it is. I design stuff in the cellular data space. It's awful. LTE was very much a "protocol designed by committee"...it works pretty well, mostly, but that's a miracle. Fully 2/3 of the protocol deals with regulatory requirements and billing! -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA