a virtual network. Network virtualization involves platform virtualization, often combined with resource virtualization. Network virtualization is categorized...

Network functions virtualization (NFV) is a network architecture concept that leverages IT virtualization technologies to virtualize entire classes of...

computer. In hardware virtualization, the host machine is the machine that is used by the virtualization and the guest machine is the virtual machine. The words...

Virtual private network (VPN) is a network architecture for virtually extending a private network (i.e. any computer network which is not the public Internet)...

Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation (Geneve) is a network encapsulation protocol created by the IETF in order to unify the efforts made by other...

x86 virtualization is the use of hardware-assisted virtualization capabilities on an x86/x86-64 CPU. In the late 1990s x86 virtualization was achieved...

OS-level virtualization is an operating system (OS) virtualization paradigm in which the kernel allows the existence of multiple isolated user space instances...

Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation (NVGRE) is a network virtualization technology that attempts to alleviate the scalability problems...

Virtual eXtensible LAN (VXLAN) is a network virtualization technology that uses a VLAN-like encapsulation technique to encapsulate OSI layer 2 Ethernet...

A mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) is a wireless communications services provider that does not own the wireless network infrastructure over which...

Systems' Open Network Environment and Nicira's network virtualization platform. SD-WAN applies similar technology to a wide area network (WAN). The history...

A network virtualization platform decouples the hardware plane from the software plane such that the host hardware plane can be administratively programmed...

service-oriented view of the network leverages on the concepts of software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) that allow the implementation...

available through the operating system, its usage is rare. Loopback Network virtualization Virtual Interface Architecture W. Richard Stevens; Gary R. Wright (1995)...

development of SDN and Network Functions Virtualization. Other founding members include Arista Networks, Big Switch Networks, Brocade, Cisco, Citrix...

VirtualBox". In December 2019, VirtualBox removed support for software-based virtualization and exclusively performs hardware-assisted virtualization...

Hardware virtualization is the virtualization of computers as complete hardware platforms, certain logical abstractions of their componentry, or only the...

Registration Protocol Network virtualization Private VLAN Software-defined networking Switch virtual interface Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) Virtual Private LAN...

internal network virtualization and quality of service framework within the Solaris Operating System. It also enables secure and efficient virtual network interfaces...

A virtual storage area network (virtual SAN, VSAN or vSAN) is a logical representation of a physical storage area network (SAN). A VSAN abstracts the...

datacentre Hyper-V Network virtualization: Programmable Hyper-V switch (a new building block of Microsoft's software-defined networking solution); VXLAN...

In virtualization, input/output virtualization (I/O virtualization) is a methodology to simplify management, lower costs and improve performance of servers...

Virtual Network Operator model for wireline connectivity in a manner similar to the mobile network virtualization model (MVNO) for wireless networks....

area network (FAN) and network file management (NFM) concepts. As with most other virtualization designs, "a primary driver behind file virtualization is...

Desktop virtualization can be used in conjunction with application virtualization and user profile management systems, now termed user virtualization, to...

Distributed Overlay Virtual Ethernet (DOVE) is a tunneling and virtualization technology for computer networks, created and backed by IBM. DOVE allows...

full virtualization, managed with a web-based user interface similar to other commercial offerings. Proxmox VE is an open-source server virtualization platform...

Network Protocol Virtualization or Network Protocol Stack Virtualization is a concept of providing network connections as a service, without concerning...

A virtual circuit (VC) is a means of transporting data over a data network, based on packet switching and in which a connection is first established across...

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