Each virtual network in a network virtualization environment is a collection of virtual nodes and virtual links. Essentially, a virtual network is subset of underlying physical network resources. Network virtualization proposes decoupling of functionalities in a networking environment by separating the role of traditional ISPs into InP’s (Infrastructure Providers) who manages the physical infrastructure and SP’s (Service Providers) who creates virtual networks by aggregating resources from multiple InP’s and offers end-to-end network services. In order to build virtual network enabled networks the following specifications must be fulfilled. Robustness: The network should continue to operate in the event of node or link failure. Manageability: The InP must have a view of the underlying physical topology, state and other parameters associated with the equipment providing the virtual network. Traffic and network resource control: Traffic engineering and management techniques performed by the InP must not restrict the basic operation of a Virtual network. Isolation: Mechanisms for isolation between virtual networks must be provided. It must be guaranteed that malfunctioning virtual networks do not affect the performance of other virtual networks sharing the same resources. Scalability: Any technical solution must be scalable to cope up with any number of virtual networks. On-demand provisioning: It must be possible to create, modify and remove virtual networks dynamically on request. In general a virtual network will have a limited lifespan.
6.2 Virtual network ID, Virtual link ID:
In order to control virtual networks spanning multiple infrastructure domains, the virtual networks must be identified by a virtual network ID. Addit...
... middle of paper ...
... Conference, vol.2 1998.
[6] Rob Sherwood, Glen Gibb- “Flow visor: A network Virtualization layer” OPENFLOW- TR-2009-1.
[7] White paper- “Network Functions Virtualization” October 22-24, 2012 at “SDN and Openflow world congress”, retrieved from portal.etsi.org/nfv/nfv_white_paper.pdf.
[8] “Network Virtualization- The new building blocks of network design” – cisco white paper http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/enterprise-networks/network-virtualization- solutions/white-paper-listing.html
[9] Aun Haider, Richard Potter, Akihiro Nakao- “ Challenges in Resource Allocation in Network Virtualization”- at 20th ITC seminar,18-20, May 2009.
[10] Gregor Schaffrath, Anja Feldmann, Mario Kind, “Network Virtualization Architecture: Proposal and Initial Prototype” August, 2009.
[11] Frank Yue- “Network Functions Virtualization- Everything old is new again”, f5 networks
Cisco Designs, manufactures, and sells Internet Protocol (IP) - based networking and other products related to the communications and information technology (IT) industry and provide services associated with these products and their use. The company provides products for transporting data, voice within buildings, across campuses and globally. The products are utilized at enterprise businesses, public institutions, telecommunications companies and other service providers, commercial businesses, and personal residences. Cisco conducts its business globally and manages its business geographically. Its business is divided into the following three geographic segments: The Americans; Europe, M...
Business ventures can benefit from virtual firewalls to protect access and data at lower costs than traditional methods. It is also beneficial to have an experienced security professional who is aware of your security needs. Virtual security involves the use of advanced controls such as a virtual switch to protect against malicious attacks coming from unverified sources. Applications are isolated to make them untouchable by malware, viruses and even applications that may stop execution (Marshall, 2011).
Cisco Systems is one of the largest network communications company in the world. Cisco provides networking solutions that customers use to build a integrated information infrastructure of their own, or to connect to someone else’s network. Cisco also offers an extensive range of hardware products used to form information networks, or to give them access to these networks. Cisco also has it’s own software called IOS software, which provides network services and enables networked applications. Cisco serves customers in a wide range of businesses, such as corporations, government agencies, utilities, and educational institutes, and small to medium size businesses. Cisco sells it’s products worldwide. They serve as many as 115 different countries. They have more than 225 sales and support offices in 75 countries. Cisco strongly believes in the advantages of a global networked business. By using networked applications over the internet and it’s own internal network, Cisco is gaining financial contribution of at least $825 million a year in operating costs savings and revenue enhancements. Today, Cisco is the largest commerce site, with 87% of their orders are transacted over the web.
Netflix consumes about 29.7% of peak downstream traffic because of its online video streaming service. (Adhikari, et al., 2012). The network architecture of Netflix should be well organized to support the features of high availability and scalability. Netflix previously had its own data center to host the services and functions required for efficient video streaming availability to its customers. Currently, Netflix has adopted cloud techn...
Cianfrani, A., Eramo, V., Listanti, M., Polverini, M., & Vasilakos, A.V. (2012). An OSPF-integrated routing strategy for Qos-aware energy saving in IP backbone networks. IEEE Transactions on Network & Service Management, 9(3), 254. doi: 10.1109/TNSM.2012.031512.110165
Although VPN is very popular in the market for networking technology, it may raise some concerns for IT managers. VPN requires an in-depth understanding of public network security issues and proper deployment precautions. The task of choosing and deploying a VPN solution is far from being simple and may require the training of workers in at least the basics...
Today’s firewalls combine multilayer stateful packet inspection and multiprotocol application inspection. The virtualized network and advanced security tools shape them even better. At last the only thing is enterprise firewall is for entire network whereas host based firewall is for that particular host only. When we use both of these it leads to no compromise of security.
My purpose behind this brief history of virtualization was to inform you how virtualization became I have a proposal for you. I would like
It’s the single most amazing piece of technology ever created. It has changed my life and all the world’s lives so dramatically. The VirtNet is a virtual reality video game network, and it seems so real that no one could ever tell the difference. I’m one of the best gamers on the VirtNet. I’ve basically mastered the art of coding and hacking, and it allows me to do literally anything I want.
As we all know virtualization is the requirement of future. We have evolved from the age of traditional environment to virtual environment.We have grown accustomed to almost all things virtual from virtual memory to virtual networks to virtual storage.The most widely leveraged benefit of virtualization technology is server consolidation, enabling one server to take on the workloads of multiple servers. For example, by consolidating a branch office’s print server, fax server, exchange server, and web server on a single windows server, businesses reduce the costs of hardware, maintenance, and staffing.
The virtual organization is a network of independent suppliers, customers, and even competitors, generally tied together by computer technology (Roger, 1991). They share skills, costs, and access to markets. It is tend to have flat structures in which information and decision making move horizontally (Judith R.G, 2002). Through the support of modern electronic system, it becomes possible to link people across formal organizational boundaries (Judith, 2002, quoted in S.G. Straus, S.P. Weisband, and J.M. Wilson, 1998).
VMM allows multiple virtual machines to be running at the same time and transparently multiplexes resources between them [Gol74]. The VMM also isolates the virtual machines from on...
Networks in organisation are dynamic and complex entities which can be quite challenging to configure and manage. (Kim & Feamster 2013). These corporate networks consist of multiple routers, switches, firewalls, middleboxes and a particular advantage of network management is the ability to monitor the entire business network. As all the devices are interconnected with many event occurring simultaneously, problems with once device can eventually lead and spread throughout...
Network planning upon successful implementation offers hybrid IT and cloud solutions, end-to-end network services including network infrastructure consulting and design, implementation, and operations and maintenance services for any size organization.
The TCP/IP is the most important internet operation protocol in the world. While IP protocol performs the mass of the functions which is needed for the internet to work. It does not have many capabilities which are essential and needed by applications. In TCP/IP model these tasks are performed by a pair of protocols that operate at the transport layer. The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the User Datagram Protocol (UDP). These two protocols are vital when it comes to delivering and managing the communication of numerous applications. To pass on data streams to the proper applications the Transport layer must identify the target application. First, to be able to attain this, Transport layer assigns an application an identifier. In the TCP/IP model call this identifier a port number. Every individual software process needing to access the network is assigned a un...