NFV Infrastructures U5
NFV Infrastructures U5
The NVFI is based on low cost, standardized x86 computing hardware and software
—hypervisors, virtual machines and virtual infrastructure managers that enable the
physical and virtual network layers. It delivers the physical resources—compute,
storage and network and software on which VNFs are deployed and managed. The
NFVI provides the virtualization layer that sits above the hardware and abstracts
hardware resources so they can be logically partitioned and provisioned to support
VNFs. The NFVI is also critical in building complex, widely distributed networks
without the geographic limitations associated with traditional network architectures.
Virtualized network functions run in one or more virtual machines on top of the
hardware networking infrastructure. VNFs include routers, switches, SD-WAN,
firewalls and a growing number of other network services now available as software
from vendors like Cisco, Juniper Networks and Palo Alto Networks.
Virtual Infrastructure Manager controls and manages the NFVI compute, storage
and network resources.
NFV MANO functionality is provided by established network vendors like Cisco and
Juniper, as well as open-source offerings from Cloudify and Open Source MANO.
A real-life use case shows how easily a global enterprise can deploy virtual network
functions using Equinix’s Network Edge. In this instance, a global agricultural
manufacturer hosts production workloads in AWS US West. These workloads
provide services to all their global locations. Development, test and pre production
Oracle systems are hosted in an Oracle Cloud in located Phoenix. Unpredictable
performance with data replication from AWS to Oracle meant that developers in
Phoenix were frequently working with old data. Consequently, software deployments
were often delayed, negatively impacting the business.
Enterprises can take the first steps toward greater efficiency in designing, deploying
and managing their widely distributed network resources by understanding the key
elements of NFV architectures and the global resources that Equinix provides.
SDN reduces cost of network NFV increases scalability and agility as well as
because now there is no need of speed up time-to-market as it dynamically allot
SDN NFV
Application of NFV:
Routers, firewalls, gateways
WAN accelerators
Application of SDN: SLA assurance
Networking Video Servers
Cloud orchestration Content Delivery Networks (CDN)