name: COTS
full_form: Commercial Off-The-Shelf
context: Traditionally, telecommunication equipment is provided as physical equipment with software and hardware bound together. Virtualization technologies, in principle, can support network function software to be executed on COTS hardware. The benefits of using virtualization technologies in telecommunication network are: - Flexibility: Enabling services to be delivered via software on COTS hardware makes the deployment and redeployment of network functions more flexible and allows network functions to be scaled in and out dynamically. - Time-to-Market: Reducing the time for deployment of new services would improve the time-to-market, thus allowing operators to better support changing business requirements. - OPEX saving: The decoupling of hardware and software allows the reduction of space, power and cooling requirements and hardware diversity and makes the roll out, management and maintenance of network functions more efficient. - CAPEX saving: The decoupling of the network function
description: Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) refers to commercially available hardware that can be used to execute virtualized network functions. This technology offers benefits such as flexibility, reduced time-to-market, operational expenditure savings, and capital expenditure savings.
explanation: COTS is classified as a Technology because it represents a type of hardware specifically designed and marketed for use in telecommunications infrastructure, particularly for running virtualized network functions.
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