Colt and Verizon raise the bar for inter-operator SDN

At an event in London Colt and Verizon claimed the first two-way inter-operator SDN network orchestration demonstration.
Both companies were able to make near-real-time bandwidth changes in each other’s production networks, we’re told, which is an important step towards enabling real-time network automation between operators. In turn this is the sort of thing that needs to be sorted out before the virtualized network utopia we have all been promised can become reality.
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