Open Networking Summit North America 2019

As the telecom industry’s confidence in Kubernetes grows, Cloud native Network Functions (CNFs) are emerging as the network architecture of the future, providing notable performance improvements thanks to a lower virtualization overhead. This in-depth tutorial will walk through the new Cloud native Network Function (CNF) Testbed, which provides telecom-focused vendors and operators with a consistent and reliable method to test network functions from ONAP or an organization’s own networking code as VNFs and CNFs. Attendees will walk away with an understanding of how the testbed will enable telcos to compare the performance and resiliency between running on Kubernetes and OpenStack using the same underlying hardware.