Network virtualization: a hypervisor for the Internet?
Network virtualization: a hypervisor for the Internet? is a scholarly work, published in 2012 in ''IEEE Communications Magazine''. The main subjects of the publication include analogy, computer network, cloud computing, application virtualization, Internet, hardware virtualization, software-defined networking, service virtualization, storage virtualization, information-centric networking, full virtualization, operating system, data virtualization, computer science, hypervisor, network virtualization, and virtualization. The authors strengthen the authors' case by an analogy between the concept of network virtualization as it is currently presented in research, and machine virtualization as proven useful in deployments in recent years.