My memory on this is a little sketchy, but I think that when you make a call on a virtual function, the virtual function table must be consulted before method invocation, whereas non-virtual functions ...

Once more unto the breach, Dan tries to dispel the notion that C++ is a purely object-oriented language in which all classes must use virtual functions. Object-oriented programming employs a ...

SDN, NFV & VNF are among the alphabet soup of terms in the networking industry that have emerged in recent years. Software-defined networking (SDN), network-function virtualization (NFV) and the ...

Networks functions virtualization (NFV) is just a baby in terms of networking. It’s only been around for about five years since the ETSI NFV ISG published its initial white paper. But it’s starting to ...

Both Juniper Networks and VeloCloud offer software-defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) hardware and software. But Telstra decided to mix and match. It's using VeloCloud’s SD-WAN software as a ...