The Evolution of the Carrier Cloud Networking

Service providers are looking at cloud solutions to solve some of their biggest business and technology challenges: reducing costs, creating new levels of efficiency, and facilitating innovative business models that drive revenue growth. This paper begins by outlining the key business drivers and requirements of cloud networking, followed by reviewing existing cloud networking solutions and their limitations. The focus of the paper is on the various feature optimizations and technology solutions to evolve carrier cloud networking. Cloud networking is a very broad area that includes many sub technology areas, such as networking, security, load balancing, storage, VM management, orchestration, etc. The focus of this paper is on the networking part of cloud solutions. Further, the focus is on the carrier cloud providers though the technologies and solutions can also apply to other customer segments like enterprise private cloud.