Cloud native networks are not SDN reborn but a fundamentally different way to look at networks. While SDN seemed to take physical network machines and virtualized them, CNFs are not merely ...

What is the network layer? Located at Layer 3 of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) communications model, the primary function of the network layer is to move data into and through other networks.

Network functions virtualization is an architecture of network services -- usually Layer 4 through 7 -- deployed as software, often as virtual machines, and separated from the underlying hardware.