Mitigating Risk in NFV with Continuous Simulation and Testing
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To implement a process like this, you must be able to test and validate on demand. It must be possible to comprehensively test your NFV infrastructure even on a staging environment that has no production traffic. You must be able to test anomalous types of traffic, such as security attacks, and simulate realistic loads, which for service providers can mean millions of requests.
The key to testing on demand is the second step—simulation. If you can realistically simulate traffic on the cloud, you can perform accurate tests at any stage of your development process.