Re: Has virtualization become obsolete in 5G?

[Etienne-Victor Depasquale <edepa () ieee org>]

> What I meant that as we've been deploying NFV as a VM,

cloud-native means we take that VM and containerize it further.


Umm, I don't think so.
At least that's not the impression I got from the CNCF, Intel and Red Hat.
They seem to be striving for K8s without the use of VM hypervisors.

Etienne

On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 2:12 PM Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom com> wrote:

> On 4/Aug/20 17:45, adamv0025 () netconsultings com wrote:
>
> Not sure what you mean NFV is NFV,
>
> From NFV perspective cRDP is no different than vMX -it’s just a
> virtualized router function nothing special…
>
>
> What I meant that as we've been deploying NFV as a VM, cloud-native means
> we take that VM and containerize it further. It's a further diffusion of
> NFV, in my book. The benefits about the added de-layering (if one can call
> it that) are left as an exercise to the operator.
>
>
>
>
> Also with regards to NFV markets, it’s just CPE or telco-cloud (routing on
> host, FWs, LBs and other domain specific network devices like SBCs), and
> then RRs, no one sane would be replacing high throughput aggregation points
> like PEs or core nodes with NFV ,unless one wants to get into some serious
> horizontal scaling ;).
>
>
> Well, vCPE's and vBNG's have long been the holy grail for some of us,
> especially since it makes IPv6 roll-out significantly simpler.
>
> Mark.


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