Posts Tagged "DPDK"
By Eric Carmes - 6WIND Founder and CEO
In a recent post, I summarized a number of announcements that 6WIND recently made involving key industry partners. I also announced that 6WIND will lead other major industry initiatives to bring compelling solutions for the industry to accelerate networking and telecom transformation.
6WIND is proud to announce the establishment of the dpdk.org open-source project to accelerate development of Intel® Data Plane Development Kit (Intel® DPDK) architecture-based Read More »
By Eric Carmes - 6WIND Founder and CEO
A few years ago, Intel released its Data Plane Development Kit (Intel® DPDK) software. The DPDK library is provided to OEMs under a BSD licensing model, enabling the design of high performance networking software based on either pipelined or run-to-completion architectures. It runs in Linux userspace, providing optimizations for Intel® architecture platforms such as data plane libraries, optimized NIC drivers (queue and buffer management, packet flow, classification, Read More »
By David Le Goff - 6WIND Product Marketing Manager
Given the worldwide escalation in network traffic along with the growth in mobile collaboration, service providers face well-understood challenges to apply innovative, flexible networking technologies to efficiently scale their networks. At the same time, they must better manage their subscribers’ Quality of Experience (QoE) while controlling their costs in terms of both CAPEX and OPEX.
Although multicore processor technology has existed for Read More »
By Charlie Ashton, VP of Marketing - 6WIND
At the Intel Developer Forum in September 2011, 6WIND announced support for the Intel® Data Plane Development Kit (see the press release here). Since that time, we have provided expert technical support to a number of OEMs using the Intel® DPDK library to develop high-end networking, telecom and security products.
As many readers of this blog will know, the Intel® DPDK is a set of data plane libraries and optimized NIC drivers, licensed by Intel for Read More »
By Eric Carmes - 6WIND Founder and CEO
It has surely not escaped the attention of everybody that Intel plans to re-enter the race to provide solutions for networking infrastructure.
As explained by Rajesh Gadiyar, Director of Architecture, Communications Infrastructure Division, Intel in his presentation “Using Intel Processors and Data-Plane Processing” at the Linley Processor Conference last week, Intel architectures were historically not considered for this market segment because:
Myth1: Read More »
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