<html><head></head><body style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: initial;"> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">No. That's not NFV. That's just... V. </div> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="display:initial"></div> <div style="display:none"></div> <div style="font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">--<br>Alex Balashov | Principal | Evariste Systems LLC<br>1447 Peachtree Street NE, Suite 700<br>Atlanta, GA 30309<br>United States<br><br>Tel: +1-800-250-5920 (toll-free) / +1-678-954-0671 (direct)<br>Web: http://www.evaristesys.com/, http://www.csrpswitch.com/<br><br>Sent from my BlackBerry.</div> <table width="100%" style="background-color:white;border-spacing:0px;"> <tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0in 0in; font-family: Tahoma, 'BB Alpha Sans', 'Slate Pro'; font-size: 10pt;"> <div><b>From: </b>Pete Eisengrein</div><div><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, April 7, 2016 07:26</div><div><b>Cc: </b>voiceops@voiceops.org</div><div><b>Subject: </b>Re: [VoiceOps] Virtualized SBC</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(186, 188, 209); border-top-width: 1pt; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><br><div id="_originalContent" style=""><div dir="ltr"><p class="">> my point was that they, of all </p>
<p class="">> things, are a poor standard </p>
<p class="">> bearer for the NFV marketing-</p>
<p class="">> gasm.</p>
<p class=""> </p>
<p class="">With centralized licensing and the ability to scale
resources when and where you need them, I would argue they are the perfect
device for the NFV marketing-gasm (LOL).</p></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 11:08 PM, Alex Balashov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:abalashov@evaristesys.com" target="_blank">abalashov@evaristesys.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 04/06/2016 10:54 PM, Ryan Delgrosso wrote:<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
an SBC ... is a demarcation and control point between network<span class=""><br>
segments where you can inject interworking and business logic.<br>
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Absolutely, at >= Layer 5.<br>
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If it's news to anyone here that you can virtualise applications, they've got some catching up to do.<br>
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Anyway, my argument wasn't that SBCs serve no valid purposes. You've done a good job of outlining them. Instead, my point was that they, of all things, are a poor standard bearer for the NFV marketing-gasm.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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-- Alex</font></span><span class="im HOEnZb"><br>
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-- <br>
Alex Balashov | Principal | Evariste Systems LLC<br>
1447 Peachtree Street NE, Suite 700<br>
Atlanta, GA 30309<br>
United States<br>
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