The infrastructures of federal networks in many ways resemble a gated community — and Stepford, while familiar and perhaps comfortable, was built decades ago. It doesn’t stand a chance against the ...

As the networking industry is being transformed by the next-generation virtualization approach called software-defined networking (SDN), the complementary architectural concept of network functions ...

Practical X86-virtualization, as pioneered by VMware, has profoundly changed IT, in a way that no other technology advance has ever done before. Once perfected, the insertion of a thin virtualization ...

Campus Network Virtualization using an SDN Approach with a focus on slicing/traffic isolation lends itself to two main approaches, both of which have advantages over VRF-based legacy solution. Find ...

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With traditional network infrastructure, services have been tied to dedicated hardware devices. Network functions virtualization (NFV) changes this paradigm by decoupling the network functions from ...

The promise of virtualized networks and services – brought to fruition by software-defined networks and network functions virtualization (NFV and SDN) – is bright. The use of virtualization technology ...

Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA) moves switching out of the server back to the physical network and makes all virtual machine traffic visible to the external network switch, freeing up server ...