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SECURE NETWORK ARCHITECTURE

Network Function Virtualization

OSE supports organizations evaluating where virtualized routing, security, optimization, and other network functions can improve flexibility without introducing unmanaged performance or operational risk.

Dedicated appliances can limit how quickly infrastructure adapts.

Traditional network environments often depend on separate hardware for routing, security, traffic management, and other services. That model can be appropriate, but it may also increase procurement time, hardware dependency, space and power requirements, and lifecycle complexity.

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Network Function Virtualization moves selected functions into software-based environments. The potential value comes from flexibility and orchestration, not from virtualization by itself. 

Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Service Technology

Virtual functions, orchestration, infrastructure, and operations from one governed service

ORCHESTRATED SERVICE TOPOLOGY

Orchestration & Lifecycle

placement, scaling, recovery

Service Requirement 

function, performance

Virtural Router

workloads, routing, segmentation

Virtual Firewall

inspection, control

Optimization Service

performance visibility

Operations

availability rollback

Shared Compute & Virtual Switch

compute  storage  connectivity  isolation

Management-plane security ·  licensing ·  monitoring ·  sustainment

HOW OSE CAN CONTRIBUTE

Potential OSE support includes:

  • Appliance and service inventory

  • Virtualized network architecture

  • Compute, storage, and connectivity requirements

  • Virtual routing and firewall planning

  • Platform and vendor evaluation

  • Availability and performance analysis

  • Security-boundary and management-plane design

  • Operations and sustainment requirements

START A CONVERSATION

Evaluating virtualized network services?

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