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attendance events, like a football final or a
news flash.
Despite the important obvious benefits
of such elastic, totally on-demand
infrastructure, one should not neglect
certain hurdles that also creep into the
scene. Deploying, managing and optimally
operating a network of functions, rather
than just a network of routers, increases
the level of complexity by orders of
magnitude. The OSS stack practically
needs to be re-invented since, under this
new concept of NFV, processing the traffic
and events volume generated by the
interconnected nodes, makes the whole
endeavour humanly unfeasible.
A third enabler technology comes to
address this particular challenge.
Big Data Analytics (BDA)
BDA offers the power to process the vast
amount of data coming from every node of
the network, analyse traffic needs and even
predict them before they emerge. This
sequence of processing steps eventually
provides the necessary input to an
orchestrating platform that automatically
adjusts the network it controls, so that it
may efficiently and optimally support th