The Netronome® Agilio® platform is comprised of hardware and software for efficient, high-performance server-based networking deployments. The solution significantly improves the throughput of SDN and NFV applications while lowering compute infrastructure TCO and preserving the fast pace of innovation available with current software-only implementation.
OpenStack networking utilizes OVS, Firewall and Contrail vRouter for delivering networking and security services to virtual machines (VMs). When such functions are implemented using x86 cores in a server, the performance penalty and CPU consumption tax are unacceptable