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• with common infrastructure and management platform;
• with network elements in various network technology areas for Life cycle management (or LCM in short), collection, analysis and configuration control;
• to stitch across various network technologies to achieve an end-to-end service orchestration and capability exposure platform.

Internal Landscape

LFN projects address the touching points mentioned above and offer functionality related to the different layers required for building a modern network.

It’s worth looking at the projects within the LFN umbrella in the context of the network itself.LFN projects offer functionality related to the different layers required for building a modern network.

This starts with the Transport Layer (also referred to as the 'Datapath'), where user data is moved from one point to another, speed and reliability are key.  The FD.io project focuses on fast packet processing, promising to move data up to one hundred times faster.  FD.io’s work applies to multiple layers of the network including Layer 2 Data, Layer 3 Network, Layer 4 Transport, Layer 5 Session and Layer 7 Application.

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