ructure resiliency, 61, 62 SOLR, 145-146 Innovation across entities, 404 storage, 144, 145 Inorganic measurement functions, 369 YARN, 144-145 Input/output process (I/O process), 52, 257 Hardware (HW), 212, 218-219 Instantiation, see VNF provisioning abstraction layers, 256 Instruction detection system (IDS), 173 costs, 45 Integrated routing and bridging, see Default gateway IP evolving hardware ecosystem, 254 routing hardware-centric network design methodology, 4 Intel DPDK, 213-214 layer, see Physical layer Intellectual property friction (IP friction), 392, 394 Index Intelligent agents, 167-168 maintaining quality of service, 315 Intelligent Routing Service Control Platform (IRSCP), 6 National Subscriber Provisioning, 315 Intel x8 6-based server technology, 203-204 NPaaS services, 315 Interactive Voice Response technology performance, 317-318 (IVR technology), 5-6 resiliency, 315 Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP), 277 scalability at VNF level, 315 International fiber network, 267 SDN/NFV implementation, 312-314 International Telecommunications Union (ITU), 9-10 service platform, 310 Internet, 1-2, 7, 172 smaller failure domains, 315 access, 22 VNF catalog, 315-316 broadband service, 252 IPS, see Intrusion prevention system cloud data, 140 IPSec, see Internet Protocol Security companies, 143 IRQ, see Interrupt request peering, 252 IRSCP, see Intelligent Routing Service Control Platform tunnel gateways, 252-253 I-SBC, see Interworking session border controller Internet engineering task force (IETF), 11, 215, 371 Isolation, 186-187 Internet of Things (IoT), 2, 167-168, 244, 326 ISP, see Internet service provider Internet Protocol (IP), 1, 10, 25-26 IT, see Information technology address, 193 ITIL standard, see Information Technology Infrastructure CBB, 276-277 Library standard IP-edge routers, 322-323 ITU, see International Telecommunications Union IP-over-WDM architecture, 363 ITU-T, see Telecommunication Standardization Sector of IP-routing protocols, 26 International Telecommunications Union IP/optical network wit