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The Past, Present, and Future of the Telecom Cloud

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Back in the early days of the internet, circa late 1990s, I worked at Ascend Communications, a manufacturer of Remote Access Concentrators (RACs). Another box provided user authentication, and so on down the line. In 2012, the concept of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) was born. One box answered calls.