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Introduction
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**Welcome to SampleVNF's documentation !**


The project's goal was to provide a placeholder for various sample VNF
(Virtual Network Function (:term:`VNF`)) development which includes example
reference architecture and optimization methods related to VNF/Network service
for high performance VNFs.
Today, we only maintain PROX and rapid scripts as part of this project
to perform Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure
(:term:`NFVI`) characterization.

*SampleVNF* is used in OPNFV for characterization of NFVI.


About This Document
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This document consists of the following chapters:

* Chapter :doc:`01-introduction` provides a brief introduction to *SampleVNF*
  project's background and describes the structure of this document.

* Chapter :doc:`02-methodology` describes the methodology implemented by the
  *SampleVNF* Project for :term:`NFVI` verification.

* Chapter :doc:`03-installation` provides instructions to install *SampleVNF*.

* Chapter :doc:`04-running_the_test` shows how to run the dataplane testing.