Cloud NFV Infrastructure

Netronome provides NFV infrastructure solutions with breakthrough server performance and efficiency enabling Telco cloud service providers to deliver innovative and rapid new services related to 4G/5G mobile video, data, IoT and autonomous car applications.

High-Performance 4G/5G Cloud and NFV Infrastructure

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The core building blocks of the cloud NFV infrastructure are the server and the VMs that the server hosts. The applications that run in the VMs have different resource requirements – CPU, I/O, memory, etc. As such, operators must deal with different VM profiles, and the ability to place them efficiently on the server infrastructure has a direct impact on the operator’s ability to rapidly deliver the best services. Today, these challenges result in silos of servers that are configured differently, taking down operational efficiency. What is needed is a homogenous server infrastructure managed centrally using tools like OpenStack, where VMs with any profile can be placed anywhere in the server infrastructure and moved at will while maintaining the highest levels of application performance.

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The Netronome Agilio SmartNIC platform offloads virtual switching or routing in the NFV infrastructure (NFVi) from the server CPU to the Agilio CX SmartNIC. It plugs into open source virtual switching (Open vSwitch) or virtual routing (Contrail vRouter) layers on one side and works with a wide range of management and orchestration environments such as OpenStack and Open Daylight, as well as commercial solutions from leading OEMs. Innovative SR-IOV and Express Virtio (XVIO) implementations enable users to maintain all SDN capabilities available in virtual switch and router implementations. Customer defined data plane processing, such as distributed security and in-band telemetry, can be augmented using programming languages such as P4, C and eBPF.

Testimonials

“Virtual switches have become an integral part of data center networking, however performance becomes a significant impediment at 10Gb/s and higher data rates. Netronome Agilio CX SmartNICs save significant CPU cycles while improving performance for server-based networking features such as virtual tunnel end points and policies per VM or tenant, enabling higher service levels at lower cost.”

- Chen Li, SDN Project Manager at China Mobile

“With the NFV market entering production phase, efficient operations require a clean demarcation between VNF services and SDN/NFV infrastructure networking layers while being able to meet the performance levels needed for the next phase of NFV realization. Agilio SmartNIC technology from Netronome enables Ericsson to satisfy mission-critical enterprise workloads and meet cost-per- bit challenge of 5G and fiber access evolution.”

- Francois Lemarchand head of NFVI product strategy at Ericsson

“Nuage Networks VSP has been deployed in enterprise and service provider clouds of all sizes and architectures. Our customers around the world have realized the benefits of SDN to eliminate constraints in deploying and managing their networks. Netronome takes that efficiency even further by providing hardware acceleration for SDN networking while preserving the flexibility of our platform.”

- Charles Ferland, VP of Business Development at Nuage Networks

“The Juniper Networks Contrail vRouter, one of the key components of the Contrail SDN solution, is ideal for orchestrating and automating cloud networks. The Contrail vRouter and its ability to provide highly scalable secure virtual networks, combined with SmartNICs such as Netronome’s Agilio CX, allows the acceleration of a broad set of networking functions and the ability to evolve rapidly with changing needs.”

- Ankur Singla, Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Cloud Software at Juniper Networks.

“Proven and robust cloud management with Mirantis OpenStack enables service providers and enterprises to accelerate their SDN and NFV adoption,” said “Netronome’s Agilio platform supports standard OVS interfaces, helping to maintain a high level of cloud management user experience while delivering hardware acceleration and resulting efficiencies.”

- Kamesh Pemmaraju, Vice President of Product Marketing, Mirantis

“Netronome’s Agilio SmartNICs provide an excellent platform to showcase Tieto’s expertise in NFV solutions. The Tieto and Netronome collaboration has demonstrated a 5X performance improvement over conventional solutions for virtual Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) while preserving the benefits of virtualization on COTS hardware.”

- Nicholas Hamblin, Head of Cloud and IP Business Unit at Tieto

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