Software Networks at the Edge: A Shift of Paradigm

A. Manzalini, R. Saracco
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Abstract

Technology advances and costs reductions in processing, storage and communications will determine, in the next years, a growing amassing of IT and networking resources at the edge of current networks (i.e., not only in the distribution and access segments, but up to the end Users devices). Moreover, the edge is also where we are witnessing "intelligence" migrating, already since a few years. This paper argues that the adoption, in this area, of Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization solutions will create a sort of distributed communication "fabric" offering an enormous processing and storage power, to execute functions and services, and to store data. This, together with the economic drive given by a myriad of new Players (entering the arena) along with the rapid expansion of ICT services, will lead to a shift from a network infrastructure, whose capabilities are statically "designed and provisioned", to an highly flexible edge fabric whose dynamics is an emergent property of the ever changing aggregation and usage of resources.
软件网络的边缘:范式的转变
在处理、存储和通信方面的技术进步和成本降低将决定,在未来几年中,在当前网络的边缘(即,不仅在分配和访问部分,而且在最终用户设备),信息技术和网络资源的日益积累。此外,边缘也是我们目睹“智能”迁移的地方,这种情况已经持续了几年。本文认为,在这一领域,采用软件定义网络和网络功能虚拟化解决方案将创建一种分布式通信“结构”,提供巨大的处理和存储能力,以执行功能和服务,并存储数据。这一点,加上无数新参与者(进入竞技场)带来的经济驱动,以及ICT服务的快速扩张,将导致网络基础设施的转变,其能力是静态的“设计和供应”,到高度灵活的边缘结构,其动态是不断变化的资源聚合和使用的新兴属性。
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