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In general, the architecture consists of two layers: IaaS (IEC), SmartNIC layer. But in R3, we have two simple layers: Host Layer, SmartNIC Layer.
Use Case
1. OVS-DPDK offload into SmartNic to accelerate the network performance and save computing resources which is much valuable in edge cloud evviroment
2. part of the UPF functions like load balance, forwarding, dpi, etc offloaded into SmartNIC to enhance the performance of UPF who will be deployed in carrier's edge cloud datacenters
- OVS-DPDK offload into SmartNic
Where on the Edge
Business Drivers: SmartNIC is located in edge cloud servers, which belongs to the EC infrastructure and VPC, 5G UPF can use SmartNIC to accelerate the performance.
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The detailed hardware is itemized below
| Bare Metal Machine(Host Layer) | SmartNic Layer | System | Software | |
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| Machine 1 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v4 @ 2.20GHz / 40 cores / 2 numa / 64G memory | ARMv8 16 cores / single numa / 16G memory / 25G bandwidth | Centos 7.5 | ovs-dpdk |
| Machine 2 | Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v4 @ 2.20GHz / 40 cores / 2 numa / 64G memory | ARMv8 16 cores / single numa / 16G memory/ 25G bandwidth | Centos 7.5 | ovs-dpdk |
Licensing
GNU/common license
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