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NFV vs SDN
Category SDN NFV
Separation of control and data, Relocation of network
Reason for Being centralization of control and functions from dedicated
programmability of network appliances to generic servers
Target Location Campus, data center / cloud Service provider network
Commodity servers and
Target Devices Commodity servers and switches
switches
Routers, firewalls, gateways,
Initial Applications Cloud orchestration and networking CDN, WAN accelerators, SLA
assurance
New Protocols OpenFlow None yet
Formalization Open Networking Forum (ONF) ETSI NFV Working Group
https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/contributed/nfv-and-sdn-whats-the-difference/2013/03/
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