work, please access www.copyright.com (http:// www.copyright.com/) or contact the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. (CCC), 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, 978-750-8400. CCC is a not-for-profit organization that provides licenses and registration for a variety of users. For organizations that have been granted a photocopy license by the CCC, a separate system of payment has been arranged. Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Donovan, John, 1960- author. I Prabhu, Krish, 1954- author. Title: Building the network of the future : getting smarter, faster, and more flexible with a software centric approach / by John Donovan, Krish Prabhu. Description: Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis, CRC Press, 2017. I Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017009175 I ISBN 9781138631526 (hardback : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Computer networks--Technological innovations. Cloud computing. I Virtual computer systems. Classification: LCC TK5105.5 .B8454 2017 I DDC 004.6--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017009175 Visit the Taylor & Francis Web site at http://www.taylorandfrancis.com and the CRC Press Web site at http://www.crcpress.com Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Authors Chapter 1 The Need for Change John Donovan and Krish Prabhu Chapter 2 Transforming a Modern Telecom Network-From All-IP to Network Cloud Rich Bennett and Steven Nurenberg Chapter 3 Network Functions Virtualization John Medamana and Tom Siracusa Chapter 4 Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure Greg Stiegler and John DeCastra Chapter 5 Architecting the Network Cloud for High Availability Kathleen Meier-Hellstern, Kenichi Futamura, Carolyn Johnson, and Paul Reeser Chapter 6 Software-Defined Networking Brian Freeman and Han Nguyen Chapter 7 The Network Operating System: VNF Automation Platform Chris Rice and Andre Fuetsch Cha