Orange redoubles virtualization efforts with AT&T partnership

Orange and AT&T have reached a collaboration agreement to cooperate on the development and standardisation of SDN and NFV technologies.
In the last two years NFV has carved its own path from SDN, to which it appeared intrinsically linked when NFV first emerged in 2012, and IHS recently forecasted the network virtualization technology will generate $15.5 billion dollars in operator spend by 2020.
According to Orange, the purpose of the partnership is to help simplify the deployment of virtual