Cloud, NFV and SDN in an Hour

The course is designed to let the student acquire overview knowledge on architecture, hardware, software, services and development of Cloud Computing technologies.

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This course lets the student acquire overview knowledge on architecture, hardware, software, services and development of Cloud Computing technologies.

The course walks you through hypervisor virtualization as well as container technology, and explains the difference between the cloud execution environment and cloud management. Telco cloud is discussed in the context of the ETSI NFV standard. The course also covers Software-Defined Networking and describes how NFV and SDN intersects and work together. It is a shorter version of the two-day course “Cloud, NFV and SDN”.

NOTE: This course is not delivered with the FoldOut methodology.

Course outline

Cloud Introduction
  • What is the cloud?
  • Essential cloud characteristics
  • As-a-Service models
  • Private/Public/Hybrid/Multi-Cloud
Virtualization
  • Virtualization and Cloud
  • Virtualization benefits
  • Distribution of Resources
Containers
  • Linux Containers (LXC)
  • Docker
  • The Cloud Native approach
OpenStack
  • Introduction and background
  • Components/Projects
  • Main Openstack Architecture
Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)
  • The Telco Cloud
  • NFV main architecture
  • Official NFV Use cases
Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
  • Why SDN?
  • SDN Devices
  • SDN and NFV

Prerequisites

Working knowledge of computer and telecommunications systems.