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History
Distributed NFV
Industry impact
Background
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Topics to explore
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Overview
- Network architecture
- Virtualization
- Network node
- Virtual machines
- Containers OS-level virtualization
- Cloud computing
- Vendor lock-in
- Session border controller
- Load balancers Network load balancing
- Firewalls Firewall (computing)
- Intrusion detection devices Intrusion detection system
- WAN accelerators WAN optimization
Background
- Carrier grade
- Application-specific integrated circuits Application-specific integrated circuit
- Network service
- Google Talk
- Skype
- Netflix
History
Framework
- Orchestration Orchestration (computing)
- Hardware controller Network interface controller
Practical aspects
- VMware vSphere
- IMS IP Multimedia Subsystem
Distributed NFV
- Proof of concept (PoC) Proof of concept
- Cyan, Inc. Cyan, Inc. (telecommunications company)
- RAD RAD Data Communications
- Fortinet
- Chicago
- CenturyLink
- Layer 2 Data link layer
- Layer 3 Network layer
- Network termination unit (NTU) Network interface device
- X86
- Systems integrators Systems integrator
NFV modularity benefits
Relationship to SDN
- Control plane
- Northbound Northbound interface
- Southbound Southbound interface
Industry impact
- Mobile base stations Mobile base station
- Platform as a service
- Content delivery networks Content delivery network
- High availability
- Total cost of ownership
- Open vSwitch
- Availability
Management and orchestration (MANO)
- ETSI
- Restful API Representational state transfer
- TOSCA OASIS TOSCA
- YANG
- OpenAPI OpenAPI Specification
Cloud-native network functions
- Cloud-Native Network Functions Cloud-Native Network Function
- Guest OS Hardware virtualization
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Map overview Semantic statistics
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Important terminology
nfv network functions vnfs infrastructure service etsi management orchestration virtualization vnf virtualized software performance platform availability sdn function equipment services
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ETSI NFV Proof of Concept | instance of | align and promote NFV carrier-grade capabilities | 0.80 | text |
| ATIS Open Platform for NFV Project | instance of | align and promote NFV carrier-grade capabilities | 0.80 | text |
| Carrier Network Virtualization Awards | instance of | align and promote NFV carrier-grade capabilities | 0.80 | text |
| various supplier ecosystems.The vSwitch | instance of | align and promote NFV carrier-grade capabilities | 0.80 | text |
| a key component of NFV platforms | instance of | align and promote NFV carrier-grade capabilities | 0.80 | text |
| is responsible for providing connectivity both VM-to-VM | instance of | align and promote NFV carrier-grade capabilities | 0.80 | text |
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