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# Blog posts tagged "service providers"

#### [Telco cloud: what is that?](https://canonical.com/blog/telco-cloud-what-is-that)

Telco cloud or a network function virtualisation infrastructure (NFVI) is a cloud environment optimised for telco workloads. It is usually based on well-known technologies like OpenStack. Thus, in many ways, it resembles ordinary clouds. On the other hand, however, it differs from them. This is because telco workloads have very specific r

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Telecommunications

#### [Capturing the real IoT market, Telcos taking a data first approach](https://canonical.com/blog/capturing-the-real-iot-market-telcos-taking-a-data-first-approach)

I recently read on a Wall Street Journal blog that IDC says the IoT market is supposed to reach $1.7 Trillion by 2020. Let’s be clear here, not 1.7 BILLION, but 1.7 TRILLION US Dollars. At Canonical, we’re feverishly working to help our telco and service provider partners best monetize themselves in that burgeoning space.

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Cloud and server

#### [Juju for Telcos and Service Providers Pt. 2](https://canonical.com/blog/juju-for-telcos-and-service-providers-pt-2)

In the first blog of this series I introduced Juju and how it maps to the ETSI NFV architecture at the highest level. Now I’ll dig deeper into this relationship to see how it can be leveraged by telcos and service providers. So lets dive in… Juju is a neutral VNF modelling system Juju has

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Cloud and server