So now that we've taken a look at some of the motivation behind NFV and some of the touch points inside the network all the way from the edge into the core itself and the actual workloads, what does this all mean to our industry and, by extension, to those of us that are paying attention to this material today? So some of those key learning points really are that the functional virtualization decomposition that takes place inside the network that decouples that infrastructure hardware from the application is taking place. It's going to continue to take place. And those applications are going to move from their legacy design to a more cloud-native design. They're moving rapidly, maybe not as rapid as some would like. But they're moving rapidly, and the orchestration is coming along. And it's going to continue to mature. So the journey is well underway and is going to continue to [INAUDIBLE]. The reusability of that infrastructure really is great news for comm service providers. We've got some significant data points that are out there that are available in the press today that do show that the virtualization is generating results both in OpEx and in CapEx. Historically, you know, the Telco manufacturers, the TEMs, the NEPs, have made sure that software worked really well. It was an engineered solution when we've got those purpose-built platforms on their proprietary hardware. That's continuing to be challenged. Some of the solutions that we see today are still coming from those NEPs, the manufacturers. Only now they've been desegregated. They may provide a software application that they know runs really well on hardware that they know and with software infrastructure, but the comm service providers are able to provide variability that come into play. So that's great. I really like this bit of functionality from you, but I want it to run on this hardware. And we're starting to see the possibility of some mixing and matching that goes place, not maybe across the entire spectrum, and certainly in specific verticals, but we're starting to see that today and continue. Expect to make progress as we move forward. The NFV application integration, it's similar to other network technologies that have come into the comm service provider area. And that is that it's being driven by market demands. And it is being done faster than it had been done in the past, maybe not as fast as we'd like, but agility is coming into play. And we're starting to see that the comm service providers are taking advantage of that. And they're able to transform their organizations to take advantage of that as well. So service providers, they actually sell very complex end-to-end services. And the virtualization aspect of it certainly brings the possibility of them adding value into their network domain. You know, the note here is that it's not really as simple as is cloud services from some of the cloud service providers. Part of the reason for that is, again, when we talk about it, it's a global network. And what we really mean by that is that, as a user of that network, I really don't have a lot of care that another endpoint is on that same network. I simply want it to work whether I'm an IOT or an enterprise or anything else. And that's part of the complexity that comes into play here. The Market Facing Units, you know, they do like the software to find flexibility. It's able to introduce new things, to experiment in the network without experimenting with platforms, without experimenting with very costly solutions, and to allow them to learn quickly. Some people use the term "fail fast and fail forward," but to learn quickly about those opportunities and transform and apply those changes into that network. Finally, there is cost savings. It's maybe being overshadowed by new integration opportunities, which really means that we've got new ways of working. Sometimes, you're going to hear the Telco DevOps or Comms DevOps or CSP DevOps. But development operations, where you're starting to see a synergy take place between-- well, I talk mostly about the operations network-- but a synergy between the IT networks and the operations network where they've got the best of breeds and best of both worlds. Sometimes, the IT organizations really do know a lot about that layer, that NFVI layer, and being able to manage that platform. And then the Comms people can then concern themselves with the actual application at the software level of those interesting workloads, those VNFs that we've talked about. And finally, as we've kind of indicated before, there's lots of progress that's been made since that 2012 white paper that came out from ETSI. And the transformation is underway. It's going to continue to underway. And as we go through more of these sessions, we're going to drill down onto some of the very specific applications and some of the motivations, some of the successes that we see, and some of the opportunities that remain in front of us, and how all of that is built on underlying infrastructure, that network and storage, where Intel is providing our DNA to transform this industry as we go forward.
