SmartNIC is located in edge cloud servers, which belongs to the EC infrastructure and accelerate network performance at the same time.
The below diagram presents the circumstance of SmartNIC Datacenter Services across all Clouds. Specifically, SmartNIC can provide accelerated service and more management convenience for VPC, 5G UPF.
In IEC type 5 project, the SmartNIC has TCP/IP protocol processing capabilities and replace OVS-DPDK by PCIe protocol which can save more edge computing resources by delete OVS-DPDK and and offload TCP/IP protocol into NIC to accelerate network performance and reduce less workload of others such as CPU, memory.
SmartNIC support RDMA protocol. It will decrease latency and CPU workload by reduce external memory replication and context switching.
SmartNIC support SR-IOV function which general PF and more VFs with independent address space for hypervisor, It will reduce workload, latency and improve network I/O performance in hypervisor system.
SmartNIC provide plug-n-play, maintenance and remote resource management function, which will be easy to extend and manage cluster.