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SDN and NFV Simplified: A Visual Guide to Understanding Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization
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SDN and NFV Simplified: A Visual Guide to Understanding Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization

by Jim Doherty
March 2016
Beginner to intermediate
400 pages
8h 34m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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41. How SDN and NFV Will Affect You

In just a few short years since their introduction, software-defined networking (SDN) and network functions virtualization (NFV) have managed to obtain almost universal consensus, acclaim, and recognition, as a major theoretical concept for modern network design moving forward. Interestingly, however, the SDN architecture, the actual realistic deployment methodology, does not have that same consensus. Some major network equipment vendors agree with the principles of SDN but want a distributed architecture whereby the intelligence is retained on the network devices and they could be controlled by a centralized orchestrator via vendor application programming interfaces (APIs). Not a surprise given the revenue ...

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