3 Aug
2016
3 Aug
'16
3:56 a.m.
but, NFV isn't necessarily 'cloud'... It CAN BE taking purpose built appliance garbage that can't scale in a cost effective manner and replacing it with some software solution on 'many' commodity unix-like-hosts that can scale horizontally.
my main worry about nfv is when they need more forwarding horsepower than the household appliance <tm mo> has, and the data plan is is moved out of the control plane and they are not congruent. we've had too many lessons debugging this situation (datakit, atm, ...). beyond that, i am not sure i see that much difference whether it's a YFRV or a SuperMicro. but i sure wish bird and quagga had solid is-is, supported communities, ... randy