OPENSTACK AS THE API FRAMEWORK FOR NFV: the benefits AND THE EXTENSIONS NEEDED

摘要

Service providers are looking to Network Functions Virtualization (nfv) as a way to deliver and deploy Virtual Network Functions (vnf) services in a flexible way, using virtualization and cloud computing techniques. As an IaaS framework constructed as pluggable API components, OpenStack provides a given level of automation and orchestration to deploy and provision NFV services. But is it enough, and what improvements are needed?