Cable still needs a business case for network virtualization

ATLANTA – Despite a steadily growing number of NFV (network functions virtualization) lab trials and pilot deployments, the cable industry is still lagging well behind the telecom industry in virtualizing its network functions and equipment because the cablecos lack key business reasons for doing so.That was the general consensus among a number of top cable technologists at the annual SCTE Cable-Tec Expo show in Atlanta earlier this week. Speaking on a breakfast roundtable hosted by Light Reading, the cable techs argued the shift to virtualized networks doesn’t make business sense, yet."We sometimes get ahead with technologies just because we're technologists,"...