a virtual network. Network virtualization involves platform virtualization, often combined with resource virtualization. Network virtualization is categorized...

Network functions virtualization (NFV) is a network architecture concept that leverages IT virtualization technologies to virtualize entire classes of...

Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation (NVGRE) is a network virtualization technology that attempts to alleviate the scalability problems...

computer. In hardware virtualization, the host machine is the machine that is used by the virtualization and the guest machine is the virtual machine. The words...

x86 virtualization is the use of hardware-assisted virtualization capabilities on an x86/x86-64 CPU. In the late 1990s x86 virtualization was achieved...

OS-level virtualization is an operating system (OS) virtualization paradigm in which the kernel allows the existence of multiple isolated user space instances...

Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation (Geneve) is a network encapsulation protocol created by the IETF in order to unify the efforts made by other...

Virtual eXtensible LAN (VXLAN) is a network virtualization technology that uses a VLAN-like encapsulation technique to encapsulate OSI layer 2 Ethernet...

Virtual private network (VPN) is a network architecture for virtually extending a private network (i.e. any computer network which is not the public Internet)...

A network virtualization platform decouples the hardware plane from the software plane such that the host hardware plane can be administratively programmed...