An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) has attempted to abstract the programmability of network functionality for a number of years now, with limited success. There are a number of reasons for this lack of adoption, but one of them is the fact that NFVs are virtual machine (VM)-centric.
While NFVs can run in containers, they must essentially treat those containers as VMs, thus limiting the value that containers could offer network programmability.
Stateless solves this problem by separating network state information from data flow at the processor level, thus supporting stateless microservices-based network functionality at wire speed.
The result is a cloud-native approach to networking that works across enterprise and hyperscale data centers, telco networking environments, as well as edge computing scenarios that require high performance, low latency, and a comprehensive microservices-based abstraction that allows for end-to-end, software-defined control of the network.
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