NFV

Rossella Sblendido

Team Lead Networking

rsblendido@suse.com

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Traditional networking

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Limitation of Traditional Networking

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It's hardware centric!

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Closed system

● Vendor specific software● Costly● Hard to inter-operate

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Not scalable!

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No abstractions

● Hard to maintain● Hard to innovate● Hard to experiment

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Server virtualization

VLANs are not flexible enough (e.g. server is moved)

Traffic differs from the classic server-client model

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NFV

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What's NFV?

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NFV benefits

● Agility● Reduced costs● Faster time to market● Interoperability

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OPNFV

● Open Source platform for deploying NFV solutions (SUSE is platinum member)