Welcome to the Packet Pushers Weekly podcast. Today we’re exploring Network Functions Virtualization or NFV. As the name suggests, NFV takes networking functions (for example, firewalling or load balancing) that used to be tied to a hardware platform and turns them into virtual instances that are disaggregated from the underlying hardware.
NFV introduces new ways to deploy networking services in the data center and for carriers and service providers. In this episode we’ll get our arms around the concept of NFV, business drivers and use cases, how it differs from SDN, and the technologies that enable it.
Our guest is Jeff Doyle, a consultant, CCIE 1919, and the author of a variety of networking books, including the textbooks Routing TCP/IP Volumes I and II.
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Show Links:
NVF Resources
MEF
TMForum
ETSI MANO Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV); Management and Orchestration (PDF)
ETSI NFV
IETF RFC7426: Software-Defined Networking (SDN): Layers and Architecture Terminology
IETF RFC7665: Service Function Chaining (SFC) Architecture
AT&T ECOMP Transitioning to Linux Foundation
Books
Routing TCP/IP, Volume 1, 2nd Edition
Routing TCP/IP, Volume II: CCIE Professional Development, 2nd Edition
Pearson Education – OSPF and IS-IS
