Now a company, Nicira, is taking a step forward and aims at virtualizing the network, and not a small one: its goal is to virtualize all telecommunications network(s)! Take a look … today there are more prototypes, many pieces of open source software, concrete plans for experiments in EU funded initiatives (e.g. MAINS -http://www.ist-mains.eu/ – lead by Telefonica or SPARC – http://www.fp7-sparc.eu/ – lead by Deutsche Telekom ), and ideas of biz exploitations
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