The Viodi View
Introduction: Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI) applies to compute, storage and the network within a data center and in the cloud. This market segment is experiencing tremendous growth and innovation. It is facilitating increased agility, flexibility and operational cost savings for enterprises and service providers. The first step in SDI was compute server virtualization and that’s […]
Introduction Our last article described VMware’s view of network virtualization, provided definitions and advantages of same, with different opinions expressed on the main advantage(s). There was a reference to a follow on article which would illustrate various configurations of network virtualization. We attempt to do that in this article by describing figures from VMware, ETSI NFV […]
1. ONF relationship to ETSI NFV WG and OpenDaylight Consortium: My last Viodi View article examined the motivation and current work of the ETSI NFV WG and questioned whether service providers might prefer to base “software control” of their networks on that standards initiative, rather than SDN-Open Flow from the ONF. Dan Pitt, ONF Executive Director […]
Introduction: This article will examine network operator motivation for “Service Provider SDN,” and then raise the question whether the solution might be some form of Network Virtualization instead of the ONS SDN-Open Flow standard(s). We reference VMware’s version of Network Virtualization which is currently available and will soon be enhanced. The ETSI Network Functions Virtualization […]