Network functions virtualization: the portability challenge

NFV is a paradigm shift in the telecom industry, where the functions traditionally hosted in purpose-built equipment become virtualized and run on pools of standard IT servers. NFV creates a twofold challenge for the telecom and IT industries: virtual appliances must deliver high performance while b...

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Published inIEEE network Vol. 30; no. 4; pp. 4 - 8
Main Authors Chatras, Bruno, Ozog, François Frédéric
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York IEEE 01.07.2016
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Acceleration
Cloud computing
Commodities
Devices
ETSI
Information technology
Network function virtualization
Networks
Pools
Portability
Servers
Telecommunications
Telecommunications industry
Virtual machine monitors
Virtualization
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Summary:NFV is a paradigm shift in the telecom industry, where the functions traditionally hosted in purpose-built equipment become virtualized and run on pools of standard IT servers. NFV creates a twofold challenge for the telecom and IT industries: virtual appliances must deliver high performance while being portable across commodity servers. This article proposes an approach to address both requirements at the same time, relying on the notion of synthetic devices abstracting hardware-dependent acceleration functions.
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ISSN:0890-8044
1558-156X
DOI:10.1109/MNET.2016.7513857