Has virtualization become obsolete in 5G?

Tue Aug 4 15:00:22 UTC 2020

I mean virtualization of the hardware in terms of running different
router/switch/server instances/VMs/ on the same platform. Is this
desirable?

On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 11:53 AM Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.com> wrote:

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> On 4/Aug/20 16:46, Djamel Sadok wrote:
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> > How about hardware slicing support? such as switch, server and router
> > slicing? is this supported/desirable?
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> So you mean dump the VLAN model and give each service its own switch?
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> Or do you mean use one server but give each service its own VM? Or
> worse, give each service its own metal server?
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> Wouldn't that take us back into the digital stone age :-)?
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> Mark.
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