What you need to know about... network functionvirtualisation

The user - if all goes well - does not notice it, but it does have important advantages: network function virtualisation (NFV). In a nutshell: with NFV, you replace specific hardware equipment (for routers or firewalls, for example) with generic hardware running specific software. How this works, what you can do with it and what the advantages of NFV are for you as an institution, you will hear in this SURF Short from Eyle Brinkhuis, network specialist at SURF.

Eyle's viewing tip: Pim van Pelt's presentation at NLNOG 2023, on VPP, MPLS and Linux controlplane

Also read the following blogs on SURF Communities, by Eyle himself:

• Firewall as a Service: flexible firewall on an NFV platform
• Will you soon be running your firewall, switch or router as software in the cloud? It's possible with NFV