2015 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Network (NFV SDN)

Book excerpt: An open ecosystem for SDN and NFV enables rapid service innovation for Network Operators and Service Providers Innovation in end to end services is enabled by software based deployment and operationalization of virtualized network functions on independently deployed and operated NFV infrastructure platforms A diverse global community collaboratively pooling skills and experience encourages growth of an open ecosystem for NFV SDN enables the virtualization of network functions by reconsidering the relationship between the network devices and their control plane SDN allows programmability of the network fabric to support the deployment of new network functions in a variety of settings including campus networks, telcos, clouds, and online service provider networks This pervasive transformation towards SDN and NFV impacts not only network computing platforms and network architecture, it also open new avenues of research to anticipate the needs of the network engineers who will design