Price: $2,999.00
Length: 3 Days
SDN, NFV and Cloud Computing Essential
SDN, NFV and Cloud Computing Essential is a 3-day training course covers: Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN) as new concepts and technologies still evolving.
Learn about SDN, NFV, virtualization and cloud technologies and how they affect the data, control and management planes and virtualization of the enterprise and service provider’s networks. SDN, Virtualization and cloud computing are enablers of the network transformation.
Learn about:
- Basic concepts behind Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN)
- Building blocks of Cloud Computing, Virtualization, NFV and SDN
- Concepts of Forwarding Plane, the Control Plane and the Application Plane
- Concepts of Cloud Computing and Virtualization
- Cloud Computing Service Model types
- Concepts of Cloud Computing, Hypervisor technologies and Virtualization
- Cloud Computing Service Model types.
- NFV and SDN Architecture and Functions
- NFV concepts, standards and network transformation
- NFV architecture, NFV requirements and challenges
- VNF operations and management
- SDN and NFV applied to enterprise and service provider’s networks
- Virtualization, Virtual Machines, Hypervisors and Containers.
- OpenStack and Cloud Computing implemented using OpenStack.
- Service Model type (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and others)
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, the attendees are able to:
- List basic concepts and applications behind SDN (Software-Defined Networks), Virtualization, Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) and Cloud Computing
- Describe similarities and differences between cloud computing, SDN, virtualization, NFV
- List the requirements for SDN, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, NFV
- Define what Software Defined Networks and Network Functions Virtualization are
- List the components of the SDN and NFV architecture
- Define the SDN and NFV building blocks
- Describe concepts behind Compute, Network and Storage Virtualization
- List the key concepts behind Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Hypervisor, Virtual Machines and Containers
- Discuss the Cloud Computing, SDN, Virtualization NFV reference architecture
- Illustrate Concepts behind Virtualized Network Functions (VNF), Orchestration and Management and Orchestration (MANO)
- Describe similarities and the differences between Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
- New Cloud Service Models: Equipment as a Service, Network as a Service
Course Outline
Cloud Computing Overview
- Introduction to Cloud Computing
- Cloud computing infrastructure
- Public, private and hybrid cloud
- Components of a computing cloud
- Key drivers of cloud solutions
- Cloud service models
- SaaS overview, key concepts and architecture
- PaaS overview, key concepts and architecture
- IaaS overview, key concepts and architecture
- Comparing service models and scenarios
- Managing cloud storage
- Migrating to the cloud
- Cloud security, reliability, availability, business continuity and disaster recovery strategies
- What is OpenStack?
- OpenStack architecture
- OpenStack IaaS
What is SDN?
- What is SDN (Software-Defined Networks)?
- SDN key concepts and benefits
- SDN standards and motivations
- SDN architecture and building blocks
- SDN layers and interfaces
- Routing and Forwarding
- Centralized vs. distributed control
- Control plane and forwarding plane
- Ethernet and IP examples
- SDN application scenarios and cases
- SDN and OpenFlow
- SDN controllers
- SDN deployment challenges
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)
- Virtualization key concepts
- Virtual machines and Hypervisors
- What is NFV?
- NFV key concepts and benefits
- NFV standards and motivations
- NFV architecture and building blocks
- NFV deployment challenges
- NFV case studies: LTE, IMS and VoLTE
- NFV Architecture and Orchestration
- The NFV framework NFV MANO
- Virtualized network functions (VNFs)
- Software implementations of network functions
- Network functions virtualization infrastructure (NFVI)
- NFV MANO functional blocks
- NFV Orchestrator
- Network services (NS) and virtual network function (VNF) packages
- NS lifecycle management
- Global resource management
- Network functions virtualization infrastructure (NFVI)
- VNF Manager
- Virtualized Infrastructure Manager (VIM)
- NFVI as a Service (NFVIaaS)
- VNF as a Service (VNFaaS)
- VNP as a Service (VNPaaS)