Quadrant
Jianfeng Wang, Tamás Lévai, Zhuojin Li, Marcos A. M. Vieira, Ramesh Govindan, Barath Raghavan · 2022
Network Functions (NFs) now process a significant fraction of Internet traffic. Software-based NF Virtualization (NFV) promised to enable rapid development of new NFs by vendors and leverage the power and economics of commodity computing infrastructure for NF deployment. To date, no cloud NFV systems achieve NF chaining, isolation, SLO-adherence, and scaling together with existing cloud computing infrastructure and abstractions, all while achieving generality, speed, and ease of deployment. These properties are taken for granted in other cloud contexts but unavailable for NF processing.