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The world of networks is changing greatly, for the reasons listed above. It is changing more quickly than might have been expected a few years ago. A suggestion to redefine networks architecture was put forward, but failed: starting again from scratch. This is known as the “Clean Slate Approach”: forgetting about everything we know and start over. Unfortunately, no concrete proposition has been adopted, and the transfer of IP packets continues to be the solution for data transport. However, in the numerous propositions, virtualization and the Cloud are the two main avenues which are widely used today and upon which this book focuses.