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The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) is seeking industry comment for a bunch of network function virtualisation (NFV) standard drafts published at the beginning of August. NFV, the emerging partner to software defined networks (SDN), is the separation of functions like firewalling, packet inspection and …

  1. Anonymous Coward
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    >NFV, the emerging partner to software defined networks (SDN), is the separation of functions [...]

    >away from specialist iron onto virtual machines on x86-based servers.

    No, no, no. The standards bodies very carefully and purposefully avoid specifying the hardware in their attempts to standardize NFV.

    Cue, here is a quote from one of those documents you reference: NFV-INF003v031-Compute_Domain.pdf

    In section 4.4.1.1 Processor & Accelerators

    "General purpose compute architectures considered in the compute domain are ARM and x86. These two architectures are used as examples."

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