On 30 May 2023, ETSI published its new white paper, “Evolving NFV Toward the Next Decade,” written by delegates of the ETSI Industry Specification Group on Network Function Virtualization (ISG NFV).
Network function virtualization has been the catalyst of a radical change to the telecom industry, leading the transition from the traditional physical (hardware) network appliance into a new software-based virtualized network function era.
Based on the use of general-purpose (commodity-off-the-shelf) servers and the deployment of network functions as software applications, NFV has broken through the technical challenges of software and hardware decoupling. The migration of network functions from dedicated physical appliances to distributed cloud infrastructure has revolutionized the way communications networks are developed, deployed, and operated nowadays.
Full Article: IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, Volume 18, Number 3, September 2023 |