November 10 – November 12
IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks
The 11th IEEE Conference on Network Functions Virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (IEEE NFV-SDN 2025) Conference will take place in the beautiful city of Athens, Greece. The conference is an essential forum for the ongoing exchange of the latest ideas, developments, and results amongst ecosystem partners in both academia and industry. The conference fosters knowledge sharing and discussion on new approaches and works addressing gaps and improvements in virtualized-enabled architectures, algorithms, and operational frameworks for virtualized network functions and infrastructures.
Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) and Software-Defined Networks (SDN) are accepted evolutions in all areas of network concepts and technologies. They are dramatically transforming telecommunication networks, campus, enterprise, and data center networks and accelerating the introduction of technologies and applications that enable programmatic network control. Currently, NFV and SDN are in the transition phase from development and trials to full-scale deployments.
Significant enablers for rapid adoption are the shifts towards open-source software and hardware development, the convergence of IT and telco tools and technologies, and the alignment of operational processes. The integration of the latest research in software technologies, algorithms, hardware design, etc., driven by competition for the adoption of the best ideas, is helping to drive global acceptance of NFV and SDN.