Attributes | Description | Informational |
Type | New |
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Industry Sector | Edge Cloud, Telco |
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Business driver | VPC, 5G UPF can use SmartNIC to accelerate the performance. |
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Business use cases | - Demonstrate SmartNIC accelerated Edge stack
- OVN-K8s in host and OVS offloaded in SmartNIC
- Software ecosystem support for SmartNIC platform
- Kubernetes support for networking acceleration and SmartNIC
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Business Cost - Initial Build Cost Target Objective | - Common drivers for x86 and Arm
- Full DPDK support
- Overlay support (VxLAN, GRE)
- Hardware offload for Linux tc
- Crypto offload drivers
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Business Cost – Target Operational Objective | - OVN/Open vSwitch
- Open vSwitch offload on SmartNIC platform
- DPDK
- Kubernetes
- SmartNIC for Kubernetes
- Huge page support
- Node Feature Discovery
- Related CNI projects：Multus, Cillium, SR-IOV and OVS-DPDK
Virtio - Storage:
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Security need | |
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Regulations | N/A |
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Other restrictions | N/A |
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Additional details | N/A |
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