Agilio CX SmartNICs

Agilio® CX 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE and 50GbE standard low-profile PCIe SmartNICs are designed for general-purpose x86 commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) rack and OCP-based servers, fitting needed power and form factor requirements. The solutions come with fully qualified Agilio Software compliant with popular operating systems, enabling easy qualification and quick deployment by OEMs and end users. The following SmartNIC configurations are supported:

Agilio CX 2x10GbE
SmartNIC Low Profile, PCIe Gen3x8
- 2x SFP+ 10GbE
- Netronome NFP-4000
- 2GB of DDR3 DRAM
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Agilio CX 2x25GbE
SmartNIC Low Profile, PCIe Gen3x8
- 2x SFP28 25GbE
- Netronome NFP-4000
- 2GB of DDR3 DRAM
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Agilio CX 1/2x40GbE
SmartNIC Low Profile, PCIe Gen3x8
- 1/2 QSFP 40GbE
- Netronome NFP-4000
- 2GB of DDR3 DRAM
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Features

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; eBPF, C and P4 programmable for fast feature roll outs

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

* Features may vary by SmartNIC model and form factor. Please check product brief for more information.

Benchmarks

Netronome Agilio SmartNICs accelerate Open vSwitch (OVS) and Contrail vRouter, 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

Learn More: Open vSwitch (OVS); Virtual Switch Acceleration with OVS-TC and Agilio 40GbE SmartNICs

Contrail vRouter

Virtual Evolved Packet Core (vEPC)

Accelerating 4G Network Performance

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