1、 ETSI White Paper No.54 Evolving NFV towards the next decade 1st edition May 2023 Authors(alphabetical order):Xuhui CAI,Hui DENG,Lingli DENG,Ahmed ELSAWAF,Shen GAO,Arturo MARTIN DE NICOLAS,Yoshihiro NAKAJIMA,Janusz PIECZERAK,Joan TRIAY,Xuliang WANG,Baoguo XIE,Hammad ZAFAR ETSI 06921 Sophia Antipolis

2、 CEDEX,France Tel+33 4 92 94 42 00 infoetsi.org www.etsi.org Evolving NFV towards the next decade 2 About the author This White Paper has been produced as a collective effort within the ETSI ISG NFV,and on its behalf the following editing team(listed in alphabetical order):Xuhui CAI(China Mobile)Hui

3、 DENG(Huawei,ETSI ISG NFV Vice-Chair)Lingli DENG(China Mobile)Ahmed ELSAWAF(Nokia)Shen GAO(China Telecom)Arturo MARTIN DE NICOLAS(Ericsson)Yoshihiro NAKAJIMA(NTT DOCOMO,ETSI ISG NFV Chair)Janusz PIECZERAK(Orange,ETSI ISG NFV Vice-Chair)Joan TRIAY(NTT DOCOMO)Xuliang WANG(China Telecom)Baoguo XIE(ZTE)

4、Hammad ZAFAR(NEC)Evolving NFV towards the next decade 3 Contents About the author 2 Contents 3 Executive Summary 5 1 NFV:a short history 6 2 Challenges,trends,and opportunities for NFV 7 2.1 Declarative intent-driven network operations 7 2.2 The rise of containerization and heterogeneous infrastruct

5、ure 8 2.3 Autonomous networking,automation,and unified/sole data source 9 2.4 Fragmentation of telco cloud implementations 11 2.5 Business sustainability versus rapid release evolution of open source 13 2.6 Hyper-distributed&full-interconnected edge deployments 13 3 Towards the next decade of NFV 14

6、 3.1 Context for NFV:5G advanced,6G and beyond 14 3.2 APIs development and relationship to open source 15 3.3 NFV multi-cloud and multi-technology 16 3.4 Unified NFV management and orchestration 17 3.5 Autonomous networking,automation,and AI 18 4 Conclusion and summary 19 References 21 Evolving NFV