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.