OPNFV Taking the Best of Open Source to Build an NFV Platform

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Sean Michael Kerner
Sep 22, 2016

The OPNFV project is somewhat unlike other collaborative projects hosted at Linux Foundation. Rather than being the home for a specific single piece of technology, OPNFV works with multiple upstream open-source communities in a bid to compose a complete Network Function Virtualization (NFV) platform.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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