Talk:Network virtualization

This page is currently under construction. I am a new Wikipedia author and a novice with the Wikipedia Confluence Wiki language. Please bear with me. I hope to have complete text and redirects on Monday, October 10.

I cover a number of vendors' virtualization implementations, but certainly the list is not exhaustive. I am of course looking for contributions to the Examples and any other fine points that others might want to add.

Stefaniab 22:28, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

The first version of "Network Virtualization" is now complete. I've had requests from various people for additional network virtualization content with which I am less familiar. So here is a request for input from the Wikipedia community on the following topics:


 * LDOMs
 * VMware's virutal network segments
 * WAN emulation

Stefaniab 19:40, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

I would volunteer to provide some input regarding Network Virtualization in the WAN. The question is how to combine it with the existing content. The most appropriate reference on how to link LAN and WAN concepts appears to be Victor Moreno's book (if you should not know it a chapter is available for free at http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid7_gci1205459,00.html). I could think of an "inside-out logic" beginning with a section on NV that is internal to the server continuing with a section on VLAN and finally a section on the WAN (e.g. VRF/VPN concepts). What do you think?

Vitabrevissima (talk) 10:30, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Vitabrevissima, please feel free to edit this page as you best see fit. I'd love to have the concept Network virtualization on the WAN beefed up. I have a better knowledge of internal network virtualization (on the box).

Also, this section needs to be brought up to Wikipedia's Style. I'm not 100 percent sure of what that means. Are there any budding Wikipedians who would like to take this on?

Stefaniab (talk) 22:19, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

future internet
hi stefaniab, i have linked from "future internet" to your page. just to let you know... i'll also inform some colleagues that your page exists and how it can be enriched. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Andersen Frank (talk • contribs) 12:01, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

Network Virtualization vs Virtual Network
I'm not too happy with the article as it is right now. It focuses nearly entirely on the aspects of network virtualization in a host virtualization context, and leaves out a lot more. Everything that adds something to a network that isn't really there is some kind of virtualization. What I'm thinking of is splitting the article in respect of the different layers being virtualized. Think about: Comments? Zac67 (talk) 17:59, 1 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Layer 1: Switching (L1 is only virtual)
 * Layer 2: VLAN (creates virtual Broadcast Domains)
 * Layer 3: VPN (creates virtual L3 links)
 * Layer 4: NAT, PAT, reverse NAT, ...
 * virtual network: partly or completely virtual L1 & L2

NFV and ONF vs. SDN and OpenFlow vs. OpenStack
Is there any space where we could add the following topics to the article?


 * The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) is a nonprofit, mutually beneficial trade organization, to improve networking through software-defined networking (SDN) and standardizing the OpenFlow protocol and related technologies.


 * Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is a network architecture concept that proposes using IT virtualization related technologies to virtualize entire classes of network node functions into building blocks that may be connected, or chained, to create communication services.


 * SDN is a broadly defined term focused in on evolving the networking paradigm by leveraging software principles for solving networking challenges such as day to day operations.


 * OpenFlow is the first practical example of a protocol that enables the separation of control & data plane.


 * OpenStack is independent from SDN or OpenFlow.

--Never stop exploring (talk) 08:05, 12 April 2015 (UTC)