Network Function Virtualization Introduction

Module 1: Introduction, Architecture, Standards and Use Cases

• Introduction and Motivations
• Architecture
• Standardization in the ETSI
• Use cases
• Laboratory: Onboarding and deployment of a VNF
• Familiarization with a complete NFV environment
• Instantiation of my first VNF

Module 2: NFVI – Infrastructure NFV

• COTS Hardware
• Description of the Virtualization Layer
• Optimizations at the NFVI level (EPA)
• Laboratory: Interacting with an NFVI environment with KVM
• Installing KVM and launching a VM
• Interacting with EPA at hypervisor level
• Interacting with EPA at the data plane

Module 3: VIM – Virtual Infrastructure Manager

• OpenStack in NFV
• Laboratory: Instantiation of VNFs at the VIM level
• EPA optimizations at hypervisor level in OpenStack
• EPA optimization at the data plane in OpenStack
• Basic orchestration with OpenStack Heat

Module 4: NFV Orchestration

• The MANO Stack
• Virtual Network Functions (VNF) Management
• Network Services Management (NS)
• NFV Network Paths
• NFV MANO Open Implementations
• Laboratory: Managing the service life cycle with Open Source MANO
• Preparing the NFV-O and VNF-Manager
• NS/VNF Onboarding
• Launching NS/VNF
• Managing the life cycle of the VNFs
• Advanced functions: Autoscaling, Service Function Chaining, Network Slicing, and others (according to interest)