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Author: Elena Crenguta Lindqvist

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 <br>For many years at Ericsson, we made SW and HW very dependent on each other. Customers bought whole racks of custom HW and the Ericsson SW applications deployed and running on top of that HW.
 <br>NFVi is part of the NFV framework and it means, more or less, decoupling the SW from HW for network nodes using virtualization. 
 <br>It means you can run the telecom applications(the SW) on any HW (like Dell, HP, Qanta, SuperMicro, Fujitsu servers, whatnot), in VMs or containers.
+<br> Basically, you can run it on Intel HW, 'cause that's so much better ... meltdown ... spectre ... zombieload 
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 <br>Traces of this decoupling of the network functions from proprietary hardware appliances have been there for many years now. 
 <br>Around 2003, I worked in an ISP. We used Cisco routers to do BGP with customers and the upstream provider. I was in awe when GNU Zebra came out and I could run BGP in a Linux box.