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NFV IFA and EVE Interim meeting – a step to NFV evolution

This September, the IFA and EVE working groups of the ETSI ISG NFV met face-to-face in Munich from 3rd to 5th September, 2024. The meeting was hosted by NTT DOCOMO in their premises in the west of Munich.

Edition ed521 of NFV specifications in Release 5 was continuously progressing NFV standards for 8 features on basis of the first edition of Release 5 (ed511), of which the most prominent ones are “Green NFV” (energy efficiency), “PIM” (physical infrastructure management) and VNF Generic OAM functions and other PaaS Services, which had major updates in edition 5.2.1.

Overall, the evolution of all features included updates in the basic NFV specifications, such as the functional requirements in IFA010 and the interface specifications of the well-known reference points and services.