In a video interview with eWEEK, Gillai discusses the promise and the opportunity of NFV in the emerging cloud era. While NFV is sometimes confused with software-defined networking (SDN), it’s actually something somewhat more specific.
“NFV is about the cloudification of network functions; just virtualizing network functions isn’t enough,” Gillai said.
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