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With network function deployed as physical appliances, being preintegrated bundles of hardware and software, new services require changing the physical structure of the network and this takes as long as months or even years and incurs the cost of a field workforce. With Network Function VirualisationVirtualisation, there has been movement from appliances to separation of hardware and software and enable a more open supplier ecosystem, this largely occurs with a single vendor's product set and there is no strong industry towards vendors deploying their software on each other’s hardware or opening of network infrastructure to client or third party innovationswhich has reduced time to deploy new services, however the Communications Service Provider remains locked-in in the long term to the Network Equipment Provider’s product roadmap.
The great irony here industry challenge is that the traditional networks that are the foundation of the Communications Service Provider business can in fact slow be slowing the business. With consumers paying less to get more each year, the Communications Service Provider must continuously create new services and provide more bandwidth at a lower cost each year just to remain viable as a business. The underlying proprietary network technologies and closed supplier ecosystems prevent the Communications Service Provider from leveraging the open market to introduce new capabilities to reduce costs or innovate to create a new service. This creates the challenge for the CSP's business model and the CSP risks being wedged. The tipping point has already been reached in highly competitive markets such as India where CSPs are disappearing from the market or are merging but still losing customers to competition. Despite the network itself becoming the foundation for the new global digital economy of the 21st century, the industry that provides the network is facing significant challenges.
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In recognising both the importance of communications to the emerging global digital economy and to improving lives of people everywhere, and the challenges facing the commuications industry, the Linux Foundation in 2018 (?) established LFN as the umbrella organisation. The goal is for LFN software and projects to to provide platforms and building blocks for Network Infrastructure & Services across Service Providers, Cloud Providers, Enterprises, Vendors, System Integrators that enable rapid interoperability, deployment & adoption.
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