NFV Concerns: VNF Performance Benchmarking & Analysis and Common Information Models (CIM)

This article focuses on challenges related to common information models, VNF performance monitoring, benchmarking; analysis and tools. We will also discuss about evaluation & selection of VNF lifecycle management vendor of NFV environment and use of Virtual Probe (vProbe) function for NFVi monitoring.

Kubernetes and the Containers – A Look Under the Hood

​Kubernetes is a container orchestration engine that was originally designed by Google. (Google has been using it for 10 years) and is now maintained by Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). It has been used to run Google’s massive systems. Kubernetes is also described as a vendor-agnostic cluster and container ..

Achieving Better NFV Performance & Flexibility with FPGA-Based Platform

This article explains how FPGAs can be useful in network functions virtualization (NFV) platform to achieve better performance and flexibility. FPGAs are used to speed up processing of network packets for variety of network functions/ applications like Intrusion detection, firewall, packet parsing, content based

Evaluating Container Based VNF Deployment For Cloud Native NFV

Containerization can be possibly implemented in mobile edge computing to provide its benefits but full integration will be expected by service providers to enable cloud-native NFV.

Basics of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) & Challenges

This article is focused on basics of VNFs: what are virtual network functions (VNFs), architecture of virtual network functions (VNFs), what are the basic components (VNFC and VNF Descriptors (VNFD)), challenges with current VNF development and onboarding to NFV environment and how cloud native VNFs can help overcome the challenges.

Automation of NFV Infrastructure Deployment & Performance Enhancement Parameters

Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) are vital technology innovations invented in last few years. Both of these technologies are collectively revolutionizing the current IT and telecom network infrastructure by enabling telco operators to make use of virtual machines in place of network equipment and further program the

Highlights of Cisco Live 2017

It was a fabulous week at Cisco Live. This event is known for providing the knowledge enterprises need to flourish in their respective digital business. Other than being an inspiration, Cisco Live also brings opportunities to meet numerous technology innovators, thousands of education sessions, IT visionary leaders, important partners of Cisco, and

Open Networking Summit 2017

Open Networking Summit will be held on 3-6 April, 2017 in Santa Clara, California. It is one of the largest events of the networking industry and it puts all the leaders and enterprises under one umbrella and gives them a chance to share an educative and learning opportunity. ONS provides platforms for networking ecosystem, including incumbent vendors, operators, to discuss

Kubernetes Networking Internals

Kubernetes works on the principle of assigning IP addresses to pods, called as “IP-per-pod” model. The IPAM (IP address management) task is left to third party solutions. Some of these solutions include Docker networking, Flannel, IPvlan, contive, OpenVswitch, GCE and others. The Kubernetes architecture consists of master node, replication controller..

Future of Networking : Software Defined Networking (SDN)

There have been a lot of innovations in the virtualization domain which has benefited compute and storage. However those benefits are constrained due to limitations in the traditional network model. It is becoming increasingly difficult task to manage infrastructure which needs rapid network provisioning and also can be a time consuming.