Book description
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) will drive dramatic cost reductions while also accelerating service delivery. Using NFV with SDN, network owners can provision new functions rapidly on demand, improve scalability, and leverage microservices. Benefits like these will make NFV indispensable for service providers, mobile operators, telcos, and enterprises alike.
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) with a Touch of SDN is the first practical introduction to NFV’s fundamental concepts, techniques, and use cases. Written for wide audiences of network engineers, architects, planners, and operators, it assumes no previous knowledge of NFV architecture, deployment, or management.
The authors first explain how virtualization, VMs, containers, and related technologies establish the foundation for the NFV transformation. Next, they show how these concepts and technologies can be applied to virtualize network functions in the cloud, data centers, routing, security, and the mobile packet core.
You’ll discover new tools and techniques for managing and orchestrating virtualized network devices, and gain new clarity on how SDN and NFV interact and interrelate. By the time you’re done, you’ll be ready to assess vendor claims, evaluate architectures, and plan NFV’s role in your own networks.
Understand NFV’s key benefits and market drivers
Review how virtualization makes NFV possible
Consider key issues associated with NFV network design and deployment
Integrate NFV into existing network designs
Orchestrate, build, and deploy NFV networks and cloud services
Maximize operational efficiency by building more programmable, automated networks
Understand how NFV and SDN work together
Address security, programmability, performance, and service function chaining
Preview evolving concepts that will shape NFV’s future
Table of contents
- About This E-Book
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
- About the Technical Reviewers
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Journey to Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Era
- Chapter 2. Virtualization Concepts
- Chapter 3. Virtualization of Network Functions
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Chapter 4. NFV Deployment in the Cloud
- What’s in a Cloud?
- Revisiting ETSI Management and Orchestration Block
- Orchestrating, Deploying, and Managing NFV Infrastructure
- Introduction to OpenStack
- Life Cycle Management of VNFs
- Orchestration and Deployment of Network Services
- NFV MANO and Open Source Solutions
- Describing Network Service Descriptor
- Summary
- References
- Review Questions
- Chapter 5. Software Defined Networking (SDN)
- Chapter 6. Stitching It All Together
- Appendix A: Answers to Review Questions
- Index
- Code Snippets
Product information
- Title: Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) with a Touch of SDN
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2016
- Publisher(s): Addison-Wesley Professional
- ISBN: 9780134464312
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