Agilio CX SmartNICs
Agilio CX SmartNICs enhance the performance of network virtualization solutions by improving CPU efficiency, reducing complexity, and scaling more effectively while boosting overall network performance.
Agilio® CX SmartNICs, available in 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE, and 50GbE variants, are specifically engineered for standard low-profile PCIe compatibility with x86 commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) rack servers. Netronome SmartNICs are tailored to meet essential power and form factor specifications. Supported configurations include:
Agilio CX 2x10GbE
SmartNIC Low Profile,
PCIe Gen3x8
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- 2x SFP+ 10GbE
- Netronome NFP-4000
- 2GB of DDR3 DRAM
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Agilio CX 2x25GbE
SmartNIC Low Profile,
PCIe Gen3x8
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- 2x SFP28 25GbE
- Netronome NFP-4000
- 2GB of DDR3 DRAM
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Agilio CX 1/2x40GbE
SmartNIC Low Profile,
PCIe Gen3x8
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1/2 QSFP 40GbE
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Netronome NFP-4000
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2GB of DDR3 DRAM
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Netronome Agilio SmartNIC Features, Benchmarks, and Applications
Features may vary by SmartNIC model and form factor. Please check product brief for more information.
Datapath Offload
- VXLAN, NVGRE, MPLS, tunnel encapsulation and de-encapsulation
- Flexible packet parsing
- Flexible exact match-action policy offloads
- Flexible wild card match policy offloads
- Up to 2M flows with on-board memory
- Up to 500K tunnels
- Stateless and stateful load balancing
- Per-flow metering and QoS
- Programmable support for custom tunnel types
- Includes checksum and RSS for tunnels
- Flow tracking in hardware for cut-through acceleration
- Options: eBPF, C and P4 programming tools
Acceleration of Compute-Intensive Functions
- Bulk cryptography for AES-GCM-128 cypher suites and key sizes
- Sophisticated hashing and atomic operations
- Per-flow real-time statistics
Network Acceleration and Offload
- TCP/UDP/IP stateless offload
- Intelligent interrupt coalescence
- Single-Root IOV (SR-IOV)
- DPDK, zero-copy, kernel bypass
- Hierarchical three-level traffic management
- VMQ support
- Enhanced QoS for virtual functions
- DPDK, zero-copy, kernel bypass, packet direct
Operating Systems
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, Ubuntu
- Hypervisors: Linux KVM
Benchmarks
Netronome Agilio SmartNICs accelerate Open vSwitch (OVS) and providing better CPU efficiency, lower complexity, enhanced scalability and increased network performance. For example, with OVS applications, Agilio CX SmartNICs reclaim over 80% of the server CPU resources previously dedicated to OVS, while at the same time delivering 5X or more of the packet data throughput to more applications.
Applications
Agilio CX solutions are suitable for data center server applications such as:
Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) or Platform as a Service (PAAS): Deployments with SDN-based virtual network overlay control and vSwitch offload for improved CPU efficiency and application performance
NFV Deployments: Using COTS servers and Open vSwitch-based virtualized infrastructure, e.g., vEPC, vBS, C-RAN
Data Center Zero-Trust Stateful Security: Deployments with SDN-based agile security and data protection policies that follow applications in VMs
Network Telemetry and Analytics: Identify application performance bottlenecks and boost compute and storage server utilization
Documentation
PRODUCT BRIEF
Agilio CX 1x40GbE SmartNIC
(PDF DOCUMENT)
PRODUCT BRIEF
Agilio CX 2x10GbE SmartNIC
(PDF DOCUMENT)
PRODUCT BRIEF
Agilio CX 2x25GbE SmartNIC
(PDF DOCUMENT)
PRODUCT BRIEF
Agilio CX 2x40GbE SmartNIC
(PDF DOCUMENT)
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