| NOTAS: | "Open source software is increasingly being discussed in the telecoms market. Several software tools are being considered – or even used – today in telecom infrastructure, but considerable work remains to be done before open source tools are a major component of any telecom network. Nevertheless, open source communities are now starting to customize software for telecoms use – predominantly via network functions virtualization (NFV) – and this trend is only expected to continue, despite being a major threat to dominant vendor business models." |
