Enterprise NFV Fundamentals

At one level, NFV (Network Function Virtualization) is simply what it implies: Those network functions that must happen within the network are now (ideally) virtualized.  This means that they are re-created as software versions. The benefits to doing something like this can be quite good, similar of course to the benefits we have learned to love and expect from server virtualization. Virtualizing network functions should be done to compliment the reality of our virtualized workloads as well…or put another way…we do this not because we can do it…but because we should.  We do it so that we can gain benefit in some new area. 

So what area(s) would that be?

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