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Network virtualization involves platform virtualization, often combined with resource virtualization. Network virtualization is categorized as either external virtualization, combining many networks or parts of networks into a virtual unit, or internal virtualization, providing network-like functionality to software containers on a single ...
Network functions virtualization (NFV) [1] is a network architecture concept that leverages IT virtualization technologies to virtualize entire classes of network node functions into building blocks that may connect, or chain together, to create and deliver communication services.
The first step in the evolution from stubbing to service virtualization was the technology packaged in SOA testing tools since 2002. [11] The earliest implementations of service virtualization were designed to automate the process of developing simple stub-like emulations so that composite applications could be tested more efficiently. [12]
Virtual private network (VPN): a network protocol that replaces the actual wire or other physical media in a network with an abstract layer, allowing a network to be created over the Internet Network Protocol Virtualization : decoupling networking layers in order to accelerate the deployment and management of networks
Initially, network virtualization only involved the separation of the control plane and the forwarding plane (management and packet transmission) within networking devices like switches. This has shifted to include the totality of virtualizing a network, including how the network is programmed, administered, and deployed, be it hardware ...
Network-as-a-Service(NaaS) is a term used to describe the provision of computer networking technology to an organisation as an integrated service.It is related to terms like Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), and Software-Defined Networking (SDN).
management and automation software, enabling an administrator to provision, control, and manage all software-defined data-center components [8] A software-defined data center differs from a private cloud, since a private cloud only has to offer virtual-machine self-service, [9] beneath which it could use traditional provisioning and management ...
MEF, founded in 2001, is a nonprofit international industry consortium, of network, cloud, and technology providers. [1] MEF, originally known as the Metro Ethernet Forum, was dedicated to Carrier Ethernet networks and services, and in recent years, significantly broadened its scope, which now includes underlay connectivity services such as Optical, Carrier Ethernet, IP, along with overlay ...