This is placed on the site as a courtesy to our subscribers.  This is the original NFV concept paper, written by representatives from 13 CSPs at the 2012 SDN & Openflow World Congress, Darmstadt Germany.
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– Form the title page:
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– Network Functions Virtualisation
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– An Introduction, Benefits, Enablers, Challenges & Call for Action
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– OBJECTIVES
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– This is a non-proprietary white paper authored by network operators.
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– The key objective for this white paper is to outline the benefits, enablers and challenges for Network Functions Virtualisation (as distinct from Cloud/SDN) and the rationale for encouraging an international collaboration to accelerate development and deployment of interoperable solutions based on high volume industry standard servers.
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– CONTRIBUTING ORGANISATIONS & AUTHORS
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– AT&T, BT, CenturyLink, China Mobile, Colt, Deutsche Telekom, KDDI, NTT, Orange, Telecom Italia, Telefonica, Telstra, Verizon.
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– PUBLICATION DATE
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– October 22-24, 2012 at the “SDN and OpenFlow World Congress”, Darmstadt-Germany.