Scenarios where network functions are getting decoupled from the hardware they are running on is appearing as a common use case nowadays. Datacenters distributed in different network segments need to run this functions virtually and orchestrate them, which is not a simple task. A promising solution to such challenging environment is to use RINA as a network virtualization framework to support applications in the cloud, which natively brings capabilities that current network architectures need to add as ad-hoc solutions, such as support for mobility, multi-homing and flexible support for mapping application QoS requests in internal network policies. This paper has carried out the design, implementation and initial benchmarking of a software-based, performing RINA implementation that provides a network solution to provide connectivity in a distributed VNF context.