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Early COI

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]

I find the list of "Early Adopters" suspect as catering to marketing declarations by vendors. As one of the people involved in SDN I was present at the 2012 NFV unveiling. Most of the vendors mentioned as early adopters were not there. Some of the ones listed are (in my opinion) not supporting SDN and NFV in any concrete way yet, apart from marketing declarations to the effect of "we like it", and in some cases going as far as to claim they have been doing SDN all along, and it's about time the industry caught on to where they were leading the whole time. I'd like to see the list changed to point to actual offerings related to NFV , if any, by these "early supporters", as opposed to mere marketing presentations, white papers, blog entries etc.

Orr101 (talk) 09:00, 17 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Suggest making it "notable early adopters", strip all the external links, link to Wikipedia articles where available. Pinkbeast (talk) 01:25, 21 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest changing to "Some notable early adopters". Linking to wikipedia articles for each company would leave the links to these companies irrelevant, as in most cases NFV would only be a small part of their portfolios. Also, although many of them do have NFV related products right now, NFV is not a simple solution or product, and typically it would be difficult to link to a particular product. Yet the risk of subjecting Wikipedia to pure Marketing is relevant, and would like to know how to clarify this objection on the article. Suggestions?

igcarrillo (talk) 18:00, 17 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Procera Networks

I'd like to have Procera Networks (NASDAQ:PKT) added to the list of early adopters. But since I work at Procera Networks I do not want to modify the page to add this myself. I present the following material to prove the early adoption of NFV and SDN by Procera Networks.

I also suggest to have the list of Early adopters sorted by A-Z instead of having "Sandvine" on the top. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Karl.andersson.procera (talk • contribs) 10:15, 13 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Heading section

I find the heading section, while trying to detach from the original whitepaper giving birth to NFV, has grown too general and does not give a clear idea of what NFV is, so that it can be mistaken for a general IT concept. Also it does not relate to other content inside wikipedia. I am proposing an alternative wording for the heading section.

igcarrillo (talk) 18:00, 17 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]