Foreword
Acknowledgments
Authors
Chapter 1 The Need for Change
John Donovan and Krish Prabhu
Chapter 2 Transforming a Modern Telecom NetworkFrom All-IP to Network Cloud
Rich Bennett and Steven Nurenberg
Chapter 3 Network Functions Virtualization
John Medamana and Tom Siracusa
Chapter 4 Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure
Greg Stiegler and John DeCastra
Chapter 5 Architecting the Network Cloud for High Availability
Kathleen Meier-Hellstern, Kenichi Futamura, Carolyn Johnson, and Paul Reeser
Chapter 6 Software-Defined Networking
Brian Freeman and Han Nguyen
Chapter 7 The Network Operating System: VNF Automation Platform
Chris Rice and Andre Fuetsch
Chapter 8 Network Data and Optimization
Mazin Gilbert and Mark Austin
Chapter 9 Network Security
Rita Marty and Brian Rexroad
Chapter 10 Enterprise Networks
Michael Satterlee and John Gibbons
Chapter 11 Network Access
Hank Kafka
Chapter 12 Network Edge
Ken Duell and Chris Chase
Chapter 13 Network Core
John Paggi
Chapter 14 Service Platforms
Paul Greendyk, Anisa Parikh, and Satyendra Tripathi
Chapter 15 Network Operations
Irene Shannon and Jennifer Yates
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