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Optical Networks Virtualization and Slicing in the 5G era

April 9, 2018

Future 5G networks will support a wide range of services and use cases arising from different vertical industries (e.g., IoT, eHealth, Industry4.0, etc.). Each of these services / business cases impose their own set of requirements to the network infrastructure, in terms of security, latency, elasticity, resiliency, and bandwidth. To deal with these challenges, the NGMN proposed the concept of network slicing (NS). Briefly, a network slice instance is formed by a set of network functions, and the resources enabling the deployment of these functions, forming a complete instantiated logical network to meet certain network characteristics for a specific service.

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Optical Networks Virtualization and Slicing in the 5G era