May 2018
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
7h 6m
English
One of the largest areas for development and deployment of the OpenStack platform has been in the telecommunications industry. Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) provides a common IaaS platform for that industry, which is in the process of replacing the purpose-built hardware devices that provide network services with virtualized appliances that run on commodity hardware. Some of these services are routing, proxies, content filtering, as well as packet core services and high-volume switching. Most of these appliances have intense compute requirements, and they are largely stateless. These workloads are well-suited for the OpenStack compute model.
NFV use cases typically leverage hardware features, which ...
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