Colin l'Anson, Distinguished Technologist & Presales strategist, HP, on the three things that HP says it's going to be renown for with SDN & NFV: best infrastructure in terms of total cost of ownership; carrier-class availability; and cross-platform support. Openness on orchestration is very important: "We'd love them to buy an orchestrator from us but we recognise that people have their own preferences," he tells Martyn Warwick.