Chapter 1. Business Drivers Behind Enterprise Network Virtualization
Today’s enterprises service diverse groups of users, each with specific needs. The different business needs of these groups translate into varying network requirements. In some enterprises, these requirements can be so dissimilar that the different groups must be treated as totally separate customers by the enterprise’s IT department.
Network virtualization is an architectural approach to providing a separate logical networking environment for each group within the enterprise. These logical environments are created over a single shared network infrastructure. Each logical network provides the corresponding user group with full network services similar to those provided by a traditional ...
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