Wednesday, October 28, 2015

NFV and Container

Even though there's only one NFV related paper appeared in SOSP 2015 distributed systems, I still feel that it is a hot topic in the field since 2014.

NFV stands for network function virtualization, which inspired by the benefits of cloud computing, NFV tends to moving network functions out of dedicated physical devices, into virtualized software apps that can be run on commodity, general purpose servers. The network functions includes but not limited to: firewalls, NAT, QoS, VPN, routing, etc. Network functions can be also viewed as some softwares that are specifically designed for packet processing.




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