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Written by Alon Bernstein, Distinguished Engineer, Cable Access Business Unit Web-scale giants, like Amazon, Google and Facebook, design their infrastructure, applications and deployments to be cloud native because this is the ideal environment for supporting their core applications, including search, e-commerce, and storage. But can a system designed to handle Christmas shopping support a CMTS? Yes, absolutely.  Cloud native’s benefits are so compelling that it makes sense to enhance them with what’s needed to support a CMTS, namely data forwarding and the networking control plane. Let’s look at the gaps that exist now in the cloud native architecture, how they could be addressed to support a CMTS, and how the cloud native system relates to the existing network virtualization framework, namely ETSI-NFV. Cloud Native vs. Virtual Machine First, a quick refresh on what cloud native is, and why it’s becoming the standard for the software industry. The Cloud Native Computing Found...