From the course: Introduction to Telecommunications: Standards, Networks, and Innovations
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Virtualization and the cloud in telecom
From the course: Introduction to Telecommunications: Standards, Networks, and Innovations
Virtualization and the cloud in telecom
- [Instructor] Have you ever wondered how one physical machine can power multiple independent systems at once? That's the magic of virtualization. And it is changing the way we manage networks, paving the way for faster, more efficient services like 5G. So what is virtualization? It is like giving one powerful machine or computer the ability to do many jobs at once. Think of it this way, imagine your computer acting like several smaller computers, each dedicated to its own task. And that's the virtualization, creating virtual versions of resources like compute, storage, and networking, all independent of the physical hardware. Now, you may ask, "How does virtualization work?" And the answer is hypervisor. A hypervisor is like a smart manager that divides the physical machine's resources and allocates them to create virtual machines, which is also called as VMs. Each virtual machine acts like its own independent computer. For example, your laptop, with the help of a hypervisor, can run…
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