Chapter 10

Current NFV Offering and Future Trends in Containers

In this chapter, you will learn the following:

  • Various open-source and certified third-party applications and the use cases for each

  • Summary of various VNF service offerings from Cisco beyond the basic application hosting

  • Challenges and future development in an application-hosting space

Bringing the flexibility of hosting any third-party applications on the Cisco software architecture is irrefutably a revolutionary step from Cisco that opened the ecosystem for new and innovative operational use cases to meet and exceed market demands. One of the main objectives for bringing this application-hosting capability to the Cisco platforms is to allow users to leverage existing open-source ...

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