Talk:Network function virtualization

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Dear Wikipedia,

with regards to my entry on "Network Functions Virtualization", please note that since I am one of the co-authors of our white paper on the subject and which the ETSI organization used in order to produce its press release (www.etsi.org/news-events/news/644-2013-01-isg-nfv-created), there is no copyright issue. However, I have modified the proposed content for editing purposes. Hope you find this to your satisfaction and we will keep improving the contents and quality of the proposed article on "Network Functions Virtualization". Thank you for your patronage, it is extremely helpful to the community.

Christos Kolias

[an email with the same exact information was sent to the address permissions-en@wikimedia.org from my address ckolias@gmail.com

Alas, a cut-n-paste of a promotional press release is never appropriate for Wikipedia, so do not think copyright is the issue, but rather conflict of interest. Thank you for the disclosure. The problem is I am still having trouble guessing what the article is about. In English, only proper nouns are in capital letters, so would presume this refers to one specific thing rather than the general concept, which would be covered in the network virtualization article. So perhaps this is about the trade group of phone companies with this name? Will try to save by rewriting it as such, instead of just being a vague promotion. W Nowicki (talk) 19:31, 20 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, it appears a User talk:Ckolias (without any edit summary) changed the lead to say "about building software-based network functions and services that today exist in dedicated, bespoke hardware." and removed the wikilinks. I have no idea what "bespoke hardware" is, although I have been a specialist in computer networking for 30 years. I reverted it back until we can reach consensus about what this is supposed to be about. My guess was since it had capital letters, it referred to the specific working group described. If it is going to be a general concept, then it seems like it should be in lower case, and probably merged into something like network virtualization. Maybe something is being lost in translation? W Nowicki (talk) 22:24, 4 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Bespoke hardware isn't a technical networking term, it's just a normal language description - bespoke means custom made. I think the distinction the original author was making was between bespoke hardware (i.e. custom made for that appliance, and not usable for anything else) and generic hardware (i.e. generally on sale from a server manufacturer and usable for a number of different purposes).

Zirion (talk) 09:40, 15 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]