Many of the existing network functions, such as routers, firewalls, load balancers and such, have undergone the initial transition from a physical appliance to a virtual appliance. That transition required mostly performance optimization to accommodate the additional I/O overhead of the hypervisor and some configuration changes to accommodate the fact that a VM can be more dynamic in nature.
This talk will dive into the main requirements that differentiate a cloud native network function from the traditional network function, and, after making the leap from non-virtualized to virtualized network functions, what is then required to achieve cloud native capabilities, along with the challenges and benefits of this transition. It will also discuss how by providing open projects as building blocks, including Neutron, Magnum, Kuryr, among others, OpenStack is playing a major role in powering this revolution.
Attendees will learn why the open and building-block nature of OpenStack makes it the most future-ready cloud and how the Telecom industry will need to move to a cloud-native world in order to build and future-proof their NFV deployments
