NFV Orchestration

Caroline Chappell
Principal Analyst, Cloud and NFV
Heavy Reading

Düsseldorf, October 2014

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With thanks to Axel Clauberg

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 NFV Orchestration Decision Points

Will the NFV infrastructure (NFVI) be a cloud platform?

One distributed, homogeneous NFVI or multiple different NFVIs?

Will VNFs be re-architected for cloud?

How much intelligence will be embedded in the NFVI?

How open standards-based will the NFVI be?

 Thank You!

chappell@heavyreading.com