The NFV movement has embraced “openness” as its central tenet, spawning multiple open source orchestration efforts. However, the focus on openness has left several important goals unaddressed, such as operational simplicity, state-of-the-art performance, and advanced development tools for NFs. In this talk, Scott Shenker and Sylvia Ratnasamy will survey the state of NFV and point to a new approach which retains the important goal of openness, which is preventing vendor lock-in, while providing much better simplicity, performance, and development tools than the current NFV ecosystem has yet achieved.
