NFV training course description

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) brings many benefits, this training course cuts through the hype and looks at the technology, architecture and products available for NFV.

What will you learn

• Explain how NFV works.
• Describe the architecture of NFV.
• Explain the relationship between NFV and SDN.
• Recognise the impact NFV will have on existing networks.

NFV training course details

NFV training course content

• Introduction

What is NfV? What are network Functions? NfV benefits, NfV market drivers. ETSI NfV framework.

• Virtualization review

Server, storage and network virtualization and NfV. Virtual machines, containers and docker. Data centres, clouds, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS.

• Virtualization of Network Functions

Network virtualization versus Network Function virtualization.

• ETSI NfV architecture

ETSI documents, Architecture overview, compute domain, hypervisor domain, infrastructure network domain.

• IETF and NfV

Creating services, Service Functions, Service Function Chaining. SPRING and source packet routing. YANG and NetConf. RESTCONF. VLANs, VPNs, VXLAN.

• MANO

Management and Orchestration. OpenStack, OpenDaylight PaaS and NfV. The VNF domain. Service graphs, MANO descriptors, Open orchestration.

• The virtualization layer

VM centric model, containers versus hypervisors, FD.io.

• Summary

Deploying NfV, performance, testing. Futures.

Learning path

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