How to improve network security with NFV and SDN
rcrwireless | February 09, 2018
Service providers have gravitated toward open distributed architectures over the past few years with the rise of network functions virtualization (NFV), software-defined networking (SDN), virtual machines, containers and other technologies. Although network operators have been eager to embrace open distributed architectures to decrease costs and deliver differentiated services, they have also been wary about new security challenges the technology poses. What is sometimes overlooked, however, are the different ways open distributed architectures can improve network security.