So many vendors and groups to choose from: how to cope with the velocity problem

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Nicolas Fischbach, Director of Strategy, Architecture & Innovation, Colt

Colt is a huge NFV enthusiast but, Nicholas tells Martyn Warwick, the sheer number of startups and established vendors moving into the [SDN/NFV] space is making network operator life difficult. How do we select the next vendors and the right technologies we want to play with? he asks. Even though Colt has a lot of resources, says Nicholas, it's impossible to keep up “so we are trying to be selective. We're at a point where we have to simplify again.”

Filmed at: MPLS & SDN World Congress 2015, Paris.

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