> > What I meant that as we've been deploying NFV as a VM, cloud-native means we take that VM and containerize it further.
Umm, I don't think so. At least that's not the impression I got from the CNCF, Intel and Red Hat. They seem to be striving for K8s without the use of VM hypervisors. Etienne On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 2:12 PM Mark Tinka <mark.ti...@seacom.com> wrote: > > > On 4/Aug/20 17:45, adamv0...@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. > -- Ing. Etienne-Victor Depasquale Assistant Lecturer Department of Communications & Computer Engineering Faculty of Information & Communication Technology University of Malta Web. https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/etiennedepasquale