A cloud-based live streaming service for SDN-NFV enabled carriers

In the last few years, Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) have been introduced in the telecommunications networks as a new way to design, deploy and manage networking services. Working together, they are able to consolidate and deliver the networking components using standard IT virtualization technologies making, in such a way, Telco infrastructures more flexible and adaptive with respect to the needs of both end users and service providers. In this context, this paper presents a prototype of softwarized live streaming platform allowing carriers to simplify functions/services management and deployment. Target of the proposed framework is enabling small/medium and unusual content providers to share events with their followers without the need of adopting a dedicated and expensive data delivery infrastructure.