4 Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)
4.3 NFV architecture

Architecture of NFV technology was designed in the second edition of white paper [14] (Fig. 7) and consists of the following components:

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Fig. 7 - Architecture of NFV [14]

The entire system is powered by a set of metadata describing NFV services VNFs and infrastructure requirements to NFV MANO to manage accordingly. These descriptions together with services, VNFs and infrastructure can be provided by other industry players.