One of the technologies that could slow the growth of NFV is cloud-native containerization, which is another virtualization technology that is used for some network functions.

Scott Raynovich discusses the toughest operational challenges of network virtualization (NV) that IT managers should watch out for in the shift to NV.

Network function virtualization technology is packed with several benefits such as high performance, scalability, reliability, and low latency delivery of real-time applications.

The report, Worldwide Telecom Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure Forecast, 2018-2022 (IDC #US44212617), presents IDC's inaugural forecast for the NFVI market.

* The impact of virtualization on application delivery In the last newsletter we discussed the impending perfect storm in which IT organizations implement three key initiatives, each of which are ...

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) has the potential to advance significant change in the way telecom networks are built and operated. Led by seven major communications service providers, NFV ...

How network virtualization can aid military readiness The increased speed and agility in delivering services can cut costs and meet the requirements for mission-specific, coalition networks.

The new network architecture followed the software-centric approach, virtualizing network node functions into discrete building blocks. It resulted in virtualized network functions (VNF), typically ...

In tandem, Service Function Chaining (SFC) tailors network traffic management by dynamically linking an array of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) into predefined sequences.

Telecom and networking powers are uniting under The Linux Foundation to create an open source Network Function Virtualization reference platform.