article Making sense of Service Provider Virtualization in Service Providers Blogs https://community.cisco.com/t5/service-providers-blogs/making-sense-of-service-provider-virtualization/ba-p/3663463 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P style="text-align: justify;">Have you ever wondered about use cases for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), and even more specifically why a virtual router might be a good idea for your network?</P><P style="text-align: justify;"></P><P style="text-align: justify;">Like any networking technology, virtual routing has a specific purpose with associated strengths and weaknesses.&nbsp; This <A href="http://blogs.cisco.com/sp/making-sense-of-service-provider-virtualization" target="_blank">blog</A> looks into some of those tradeoffs as well as providing a short video on IOS-XRv 9000, the new Carrier Class Virtual Router from Cisco.&nbsp; Please check it out.&nbsp; This should provide some much needed perspective on the current state of virtualization.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 25 Mar 2019 21:12:44 GMT gnehib 2019-03-25T21:12:44Z Making sense of Service Provider Virtualization https://community.cisco.com/t5/service-providers-blogs/making-sense-of-service-provider-virtualization/ba-p/3663463 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P style="text-align: justify;">Have you ever wondered about use cases for Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), and even more specifically why a virtual router might be a good idea for your network?</P><P style="text-align: justify;"></P><P style="text-align: justify;">Like any networking technology, virtual routing has a specific purpose with associated strengths and weaknesses.&nbsp; This <A href="http://blogs.cisco.com/sp/making-sense-of-service-provider-virtualization" target="_blank">blog</A> looks into some of those tradeoffs as well as providing a short video on IOS-XRv 9000, the new Carrier Class Virtual Router from Cisco.&nbsp; Please check it out.&nbsp; This should provide some much needed perspective on the current state of virtualization.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 25 Mar 2019 21:12:44 GMT https://community.cisco.com/t5/service-providers-blogs/making-sense-of-service-provider-virtualization/ba-p/3663463 gnehib 2019-03-25T21:12:44Z