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<journal-id>1815-5928</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Ingeniería Electrónica, Automática y Comunicaciones]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[EAC]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1815-5928</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Tecnológica de La Habana José Antonio Echeverría, Cujae]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S1815-59282021000200089</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Selección de Plataformas de Prueba de NFV para el Proveedor de Servicio]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Selection of NFV Test Platforms for the Service Provider]]></article-title>
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<surname><![CDATA[Navarrete Hernández]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Carmen Lidia]]></given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
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<surname><![CDATA[Anías Calderón]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Caridad]]></given-names>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Politécnica de La Habana (CUJAE)  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
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<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Centro de Estudios de Telecomunicaciones e Informática (CETI)  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2021</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>08</month>
<year>2021</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>42</volume>
<numero>2</numero>
<fpage>89</fpage>
<lpage>99</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1815-59282021000200089&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1815-59282021000200089&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://scielo.sld.cu/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1815-59282021000200089&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[RESUMEN Las plataformas de prueba de pre-despliegue de la NFV permiten a los proveedores de servicios evaluar y caracterizar el rendimiento de las funciones de red virtual que se desean adquirir antes de optar por grandes despliegues de NFV, lo que posibilita la reducción del CAPEX y el OPEX y el tiempo de despliegue y validación de nuevos servicios. Existen actualmente plataformas de prueba de código abierto y propietarias y modelos de negocio que proponen soluciones de pruebas para NFV. Seleccionar plataformas de prueba de pre-despliegue de código abierto adecuadas a las necesidades del proveedor de servicio es el objetivo de la presente investigación. En función de esto se propone una selección de las plataformas de pruebas adecuadas al objetivo propuesto, agrupadas en sistemas bajo prueba. Dicha selección es aplicada a dos casos de estudio partiendo de un gestor de infraestructura virtual común para el despliegue de las plataformas de prueba.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[ABSTRACT The NFV pre-deployment test platforms allow service providers to evaluate and characterize the performance of virtual network functions that they wish to acquire before opting for large NFV deployments, which enables the reduction of CAPEX and OPEX and in the time of deployment and validation of new services. There are currently proprietary and open source test platforms and business models that propose test solutions for NFV. Selecting open source pre-deployment test platforms appropriate to the needs of the service provider is the objective of the present investigation. Based on this, a selection of test platforms suitable for the proposed objective, grouped in systems under test, is proposed. This selection is applied to two cases of study starting from a common virtual infrastructure manager for the deployment of the test platforms.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[virtualización de funciones de red (NFV)]]></kwd>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[virtualisation of network functions (NFV)]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[test platforms]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[service provider]]></kwd>
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