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Cloud-Native Network Function and Kubernetes Part 1 — Introduction

Derek Cheung
11 min readMar 9, 2023

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Introduction to Cloud-Native Network Function (CNF)

For the past decade, we have witnessed the proliferation of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) such as virtualized edge routers and 4G EPC mobile gateways running on x86 servers instead of custom Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) or network processor based…

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