《NFV_White_Paper》.pdf

Network Functions Virtualisation – Introductory White Paper Issue 1 Network Functions Virtualisation An Introduction, Benefits, Enablers, Challenges C all for Action OBJECTIVES This is a non-proprietary white paper authored by network operators. The key objective for this white paper is to outline the benefits, enablers and challenges for Network Functions Virtualisation (as distinct from Cloud/SDN) and the rationale for encouraging an international collaboration to accelerate development and deployment of interoperable solutions based on high volume industry standard servers. CONTRIBUTING ORGANISATIONS AUTHORS ATT: Margaret Chiosi. BT: Don Clarke, Peter Willis, Andy Reid. CenturyLink: James Feger, Michael Bugenhagen, Waqar Khan, Michael Fargano. China Mobile: Dr. Chunfeng Cui, Dr. Hui Deng Colt: Javier Benitez. Deutsche Telekom: Uwe Michel, Herbert Damker. KDDI: Kenichi Ogaki, Tetsuro Matsuzaki. NTT: Masaki Fukui, Katsuhiro Shimano. Orange: Dominique Delisle, Quentin Loudier, Christos Kolias. Telecom Italia: Ivano Guardini, Elena Demaria, Roberto Minerva, Antonio Manzalini. Telefonica: Diego López, Francisco Javier Ramón Salguero. Telstra: Frank Ruhl. Verizon: Prodip Sen PUBLICATION DATE October 22-24, 2012 at the “SDN and OpenFlow World Congress”, Darmstadt-Germany. This white paper is available at the following link : /NFV/NFV_White_Paper.pdf Page 1 of 16 Network Functions Virtualis