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Understanding The NFV Architecture

Even though “Virtualization” has been around since quite some time and the term has been thrown around for many parts of the computing world, it has become an “in-thing” since the re-introduction of Virtual Machines in early 2000s. Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Virtualized Network Function (VNF) are two terms that are used pretty loosely and are often interchanged; — which is incorrect. NFV is an ETSI-inspired architecture specifying the ability to run software-defined network functions independent of any specific hardware platform.

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