Network and IT Infrastructure Services for the IoT Store

Abstract

IoT, Internet of Things, is a major revolution dragging along new requirements that impact the network & IT infrastructure under development. Actually, the network infrastructure is evolving to embed virtualization techniques to gain in flexibility. For this purpose, new architectures are drawn-up such as the one proposed by the ETSI NFV. In this article, we first highlight a new business model: the IoT store. We then show how it benefits from the network & IT infrastructure services. After presenting the main actors of this business model, we actually provide the overview of an NFV-based architecture that fulfills new IoT requirements. We thus show that the move towards a network & IT infrastructure benefiting of Cloud and virtualization solutions can highly serve the IoT deployment.